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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)
  • Σίμων δέ τισ ἐκ τῆσ Βενιαμὶν φυλῆσ προστάτησ τοῦ ἱεροῦ καθεσταμένοσ διηνέχθη τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ περὶ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἀγορανομίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:4)
  • ἐξοικίσασ δὲ χρυσὸν τῆσ Σπάρτησ, νόμισμα δὲ διεφθαρμένου πυρὶ σιδήρου θέμενοσ αὐτοῖσ οἰκονομίασ οὐκ ἀπήλλαξε τοὺσ πολίτασ, ἀλλά τὰ τρυφῶντα καὶ ὕπουλα καὶ φλεγμαίνοντα τοῦ πλούτου περιελών, ὅπωσ εὐπορήσωσι τῶν ἀναγκαίων καὶ χρησίμων ἅπαντεσ, ὡσ ἄλλοσ οὐδεὶσ νομοθέτησ προὐνόησε, τὸν ἄπορον καὶ ἀνέστιον καὶ πένητα σύνοικον ἐπὶ κοινωνίᾳ πολιτείασ μᾶλλον τοῦ πλουσίου καὶ ὑπερόγκου φοβηθείσ, φαίνεται τοίνυν ὁ μέν Κάτων οὐδέν τι φαυλότεροσ οἴκου προστάτησ ἢ πόλεωσ γενόμενοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 3 2:1)
  • δοκεῖ γὰρ Ἑρμῆσ ὕπνου προστάτησ εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 28 1:6)
  • "ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ἐπικούρου λόγων καὶ δογμάτων οὐ λέγω τίσ τυραννοκτόνοσ ἢ τίσ ἀριστεὺσ ἢ τίσ νομοθέτησ ἢ τίσ ἄρχων ἢ βασιλέωσ σύμβουλοσ ἢ δήμου προστάτησ ἢ βεβασανισμένοσ ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων ἢ τεθνηκώσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 331)

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

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

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