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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρωτοστάτης πρωτοστάτᾱ πρωτοστάται
Genitive πρωτοστάτου πρωτοστάταιν πρωτοστατῶν
Dative πρωτοστάτῃ πρωτοστάταιν πρωτοστάταις
Accusative πρωτοστάτην πρωτοστάτᾱ πρωτοστάτᾱς
Vocative πρωτοστάτα πρωτοστάτᾱ πρωτοστάται

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

  • ἀνάγκη δὲ καὶ θλῖψισ αὐτὸν καθέξει ὥσπερ στρατηγὸσ πρωτοστάτησ πίπτων. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 15:24)
  • καὶ τούτουσ οἱ μὲν πρωτοστάται ἐσ προβολὴν ἐχόντων, ὡσ εἰ πελάζοιεν αὐτοῖσ οἱ πολέμιοι, κατὰ τὰ στήθη μάλιστα τῶν ἵππων τίθεσθαι τῶν κοντῶν τὸν σίδηρον· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 22:3)
  • ὃ δὲ αὐτὸσ καὶ πρωτοστάτησ καὶ ἡ γεμὼν καλεῖται. (Arrian, chapter 5 11:5)
  • ̓πιν ἑστὼσ ἐπιστάτησ καλεῖται, ὁ δὲ αὖ κατόπιν τούτου πρωτοστάτησ, ὁ δ̓ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐπιστάτησ, καὶ ἐφεξῆσ ὡσαύτωσ, ὡσ τὸν πάντα τοῦ λόχου στίχον ἐκ πρωτοστατῶν καὶ ἐπιστατῶν τετάχθαι παραλλὰξ ἱσταμένων. (Arrian, chapter 6 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands first

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