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πυλαωρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυλαωρός πυλαωροῦ

Structure: πυλαωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic for pulwro/s

Sense

  1. keeping the gate, a gate-keeper, custos.)

Declension

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

  • ὕπνοιο δὲ καί τισ ὁδίτησ ἤδη καὶ πυλαωρὸσ ἐέλδετο· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:12)
  • σὺ δὲ γ’, ὦ πυλαωρὲ Πλούτωνοσ, τάρβει, Κέρβερε, μή σε δάκῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3192)
  • μήποτε οὐκ αἰσθανόμεθα τοῦ μεγέθουσ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ φανταζόμεθα κατ’ ἀξίαν τὸν χαρακτῆρα τὸν Διογένουσ, ἀλλ’ εἰσ τοὺσ νῦν ἀποβλέπομεν, τοὺσ τραπεζῆασ πυλαωρούσ, οἳ οὐδὲν μιμοῦνται ἐκείνουσ ἢ εἴ [ὅ]τι ἄρα πόρδωνεσ γίνονται, ἄλλο δ’ οὐδέν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 80:1)
  • ὃ δ’ οἰμώξασ ἀπὸ πύργου βαῖνε χαμᾶζε ὀτρύνων παρὰ τεῖχοσ ἀγακλειτοὺσ πυλαωρούσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 48:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ Ἑρμείαν ἐριούνιον ὕπνοσ ἔμαρπτεν ὁρμαίνοντ’ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ὅπωσ Πρίαμον βασιλῆα νηῶν ἐκπέμψειε λαθὼν ἱεροὺσ πυλαωρούσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 64:2)

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

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