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πρωτοστάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοστάτης πρωτοστάτου

Structure: πρωτοστατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: sth=nai

Sense

  1. one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of the line; right-hand man, (in the plural) the front-rank men
  2. the lochagos
  3. man in the uneven rows in a lochos, as opposed to the epistates

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

  • ἢ ὁπόταν ὁ μὲν οὐραγὸσ μεταβάλληται, ὁ δὲ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ τεταγμένοσ ἐκ δόρατοσ τοῦ οὐραγοῦ παραπορευόμενοσ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ τάσσηται, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ὡσαύτωσ ἄλλοσ πρὸσ ἄλλου ταχθεὶσ τὸν λοχαγὸν αὖ πρωτοστάτην ποιήσωνται. (Arrian, chapter 24 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands first

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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