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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 οὗτοι ἄρχοντεσ τῶν προστατῶν βασιλέωσ Σαλωμών. πεντήκοντα καὶ διακόσιοι ἐργοδιωκτοῦντεσ ἐν τῷ λαῷ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 8:10)
  • οἳ δ’ οὐκ ἔχοντεσ καὶ σπανίζοντεσ βίου δεινοί, νέμοντεσ τῷ φθόνῳ πλέον μέροσ, ἐσ τοὺσ ἔχοντασ κέντρ’ ἀφιᾶσιν κακά, γλώσσαισ πονηρῶν προστατῶν φηλούμενοι· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 4:7)
  • μία γὰρ αὕτη σωτηρία καὶ πόλεωσ καὶ ἔθνουσ ἐστί, τὸ προστατῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ συμβούλων σπουδαίων τυχεῖν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 91:2)
  • ὥστ’ οὔτε νυκτὸσ ὕπνον οὔτ’ ἐξ ἡμέρασ ἐμὲ στεγάζειν ἡδύν, ἀλλ’ ὁ προστατῶν χρόνοσ διῆγέ μ’ αἰὲν ὡσ θανουμένην. (Sophocles, episode 8:11)
  • ἐλέχθη τε ὑπὸ πολλῶν, ὡσ οὐδὲν ἔτι δεήσοι δήμου προστατῶν οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀρχείων τῇ πόλει μιᾶσ διοικούσησ ἅπαντα ἡγεμονίασ σώφρονοσ, ἧσ ἀρχηγὸσ Ἄππιοσ εἶναι ἐδόκει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 57 5:2)

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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