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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

  • "ἐν βραχεῖ παῖδασ αὐτοὺσ ἀπέφηνε, προφήτησ καὶ ^ θιασάρχησ καὶ ξυναγωγεὺσ καὶ πάντα μόνοσ αὐτὸσ ὤν, καὶ τῶν βίβλων τὰσ μὲν ἐξηγεῖτο καὶ διεσάφει, πολλὰσ δὲ αὐτὸσ καὶ συνέγραφεν, καὶ ὡσ θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνοι ᾐδοῦντο ^ καὶ νομοθέτῃ ἐχρῶντο καὶ προστάτην ἐπεγράφοντο, μετὰ ^ γοῦν ἐκεῖνον ὃν ἔτι σέβουσι, τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐν τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ ἀνασκολοπισθέντα, ὅτι καινὴν ταύτην ^ τελετὴν εἰσῆγεν ἐσ ^ τὸν βίον. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:12)
  • νὴ Δία πονηρόν γ’ ἆρα προστάτην ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:25)
  • ἀποστρέφεται τὸν δῆμον ἀχθεσθεῖσ’ ὅτι αὑτῷ πονηρὸν προστάτην ἐπεγράψατο. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode24)
  • αὐτόσ τε γὰρ ἥδομαι βρύλλων τὸ καθ’ ἡμέραν, κλέπτοντά τε βούλομαι τρέφειν ἕνα προστάτην· (Aristotle, Choral, strophe 23)
  • μηδέν’ ἀνδρείασ ἕκατι προστάτην θείμην χθονόσ, μηδ’ ὅπλων ἄρχοντα· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 1:17)

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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