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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

  • οἱ γοῦν Ῥόδιοι τότε παρὰ τὸν χειρισμὸν τὸ μὲν σύμπτωμα ποιοῦντεσ μέγα καὶ δεινόν, αὐτοὶ δὲ σεμνῶσ καὶ προστατικῶσ κατὰ τὰσ πρεσβείασ χρώμενοι ταῖσ ἐντεύξεσι καὶ ταῖσ κατὰ μέροσ ὁμιλίαισ, εἰσ τοῦτ’ ἤγαγον τὰσ πόλεισ, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ, ὥστε μὴ μόνον λαμβάνειν δωρεὰσ ὑπερβαλλούσασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ χάριν προσοφείλειν αὐτοῖσ τοὺσ διδόντασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 88 4:1)

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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