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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 ἐγένετο ὡσ εἰσέφερον τὸ γλωσσόκομον πρὸσ τοὺσ προστάτασ τοῦ βασιλέωσ διὰ χειρὸσ τῶν Λευιτῶν καὶ ὡσ εἶδον ὅτι ἐπλεόνασε τὸ ἀργύριον, καὶ ἦλθεν ὁ γραμματεὺσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ὁ προστάτησ τοῦ ἱερέωσ τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ ἐξεκένωσαν τὸ γλωσσόκομον καὶ κατέστησαν εἰσ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ. οὕτωσ ἐποίουν ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρασ καὶ συνήγαγον ἀργύριον πολύ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 24:11)
  • ἐζήτουν γάρ, οὐδὲ ἀποκρύψομαι τἀληθέσ, οἵτινεσ οἱ προὔχοντεσ εἰε͂ν καὶ οἷσ ἄν τισ προσελθὼν καὶ ἐπιγρα ψάμενοσ προστάτασ συναγωνισταῖσ χρῷτο πρὸσ τὰ ὅλα. (Lucian, Scytha 20:3)
  • δεινὸν οἱ πολλοί, κακούργουσ ὅταν ἔχωσι προστάτασ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:13)
  • φέρειν δ’ αὐτοὺσ ὑπόμνημα τῆσ ἐν Θυρέᾳ γενομένησ νίκησ τοὺσ προστάτασ τῶν ἀγομένων χορῶν ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ ταύτῃ, ὅτε καὶ τὰσ Γυμνοπαιδιὰσ ἐπιτελοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 22 1:4)
  • οἱ γοῦν ἐν Μαραθῶνι παραταξάμενοι τοῖσ βαρβάροισ τὸν ἐξ ἁπάσησ τῆσ Ἀσίασ στόλον ἐκράτησαν, τοῖσ ἰδίοισ κινδύνοισ κοινὴν ἄδειαν ἅπασι τοῖσ Ἕλλησι κτώμενοι, οὐκ ἐπὶ τῇ δόξῃ μέγα φρονοῦντεσ ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τῷ ταύτησ ἄξια πράττειν, τῶν μὲν Ἑλλήνων προστάτασ, τῶν δὲ βαρβάρων δεσπότασ ἑαυτοὺσ καθιστάντεσ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 141:2)

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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