Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προστατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστατικός προστατική προστατικόν

Structure: προστατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a prosta/ths
  2. of or for rank or honour

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τοῦτο μὲν ἄρα, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, δῆλον, ὅτι, ὅτανπερ φύηται τύραννοσ, ἐκ προστατικῆσ ῥίζησ καὶ οὐκ ἄλλοθεν ἐκβλαστάνει. (Plato, Republic, book 8 497:1)
  • ὁμοίωσ πάλιν ὅταν ἀμύνῃ μέν τισ πρὸ πάντων ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ, ὑφίστηται δὲ καὶ μένῃ τὰσ ἐπιφορὰσ τῶν ἀλκιμωτάτων ζῴων, εἰκὸσ μὲν τὸν τοιοῦτον ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ ἐπισημασίασ τυγχάνειν εὐνοϊκῆσ καὶ προστατικῆσ, τὸν δὲ τἀναντία τούτῳ πράττοντα καταγνώσεωσ καὶ προσκοπῆσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 6 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for rank or honour

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

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