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προστάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστάτης προστάτου

Structure: προστατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: prosth=nai

Sense

  1. one who stands before, a front-rank-man
  2. a chief, leader
  3. a president, ruler, chief authors
  4. one who stands before, a protector, guard, champion
  5. a citizen who took care of the, patronus, clientes;, patron, by one's patron's name, a patron
  6. one who stands before, a suppliant

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν προβάτων Ἰαζὶζ ὁ Ἀγαρίτησ. πάντεσ οὗτοι προστάται ὑπαρχόντων Δαυὶδ τοῦ βασιλέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 27:31)
  • καὶ προεθυμήθησαν ἄρχοντεσ πατριῶν καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οἱ χιλίαρχοι καὶ οἱ ἑκατόνταρχοι, καὶ οἱ προστάται τῶν ἔργων καὶ οἱ οἰκοδόμοι τοῦ βασιλέως (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 29:6)
  • καὶ ἐκ τούτων ὅμωσ ἀμφοτέρων ἠλευθερώθημεν καὶ τῆσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων εὐδαιμονίασ ἠξιώθημεν προστάται γενέσθαι. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 81:4)
  • ἦσαν δὲ προστάται τοῦ δήμου κατὰ τούτουσ τοὺσ καιροὺσ Ἀριστείδησ ὁ Λυσιμάχου καὶ Θεμιστοκλῆσ ὁ Νεοκλέουσ, ὁ μὲν τὰ πολέμια δοκῶν, ὁ δὲ τὰ πολιτικὰ δεινὸσ εἶναι καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ τῶν καθ’ ἑαυτὸν διαφέρειν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 23 3:1)
  • "εἰσ τὴν γαστέρα τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ἐοίκασ ἐναλεῖσθαι, καὶ τὴν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν ἐπάξειν, ἀφαιρούμενοσ ἡδονὴν ἀνθρώπων βοώντων οὐ γὰρ πυγμάχοι εἰμὲν ἀμύμονεσ οὐδὲ ῥήτορεσ οὐδὲ προστάται δήμων οὐδ’ ἄρχοντεσ, ἀεὶ δ’ ἡμῖν δαίσ τε φίλη καὶ πᾶσα διὰ σαρκὸσ ἐπιτερπὴσ κίνησισ ἐφ’ ἡδονὴν τινα καὶ χαρὰν ψυχῆσ ἀναπεμπομένη. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 2 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands before

    • πρωτοστάτης (one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of the line; right-hand man, the front-rank men)
  2. a chief

  3. one who stands before

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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