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πυλωρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυλωρός πυλωροῦ

Structure: πυλωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a gate-keeper, warder, porter, watchful

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

  • τήν τ’ ἀμφίκρανον καὶ παλιμβλαστῆ κύνα ὕδραν φονεύσασ μυρίων τ’ ἄλλων πόνων διῆλθον ἀγέλασ κἀσ νεκροὺσ ἀφικόμην, Αἵδου πυλωρὸν κύνα τρίκρανον ἐσ φάοσ ὅπωσ πορεύσαιμ’ ἐντολαῖσ Εὐρυσθέωσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:10)
  • καὶ τὸν πυλωρὸν ἀποκτιννύουσι καὶ τοὺσ μετ’ αὐτοῦ φύλακασ, ἅμα δὲ αἵ τε κλίμακεσ προσετίθεντο καὶ κατὰ σπουδὴν ὁ Ἄρατοσ ὑπερβιβάσασ ἑκατὸν ἄνδρασ, τοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ ἕπεσθαι κελεύσασ ὡσ ἂν δύνωνται τάχιστα, τὰσ κλίμακασ ἀναρπάσασ ἐχώρει διὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ μετὰ τῶν ἑκατὸν ἐπὶ τήν ἄκραν, ἤδη περιχαρὴσ διὰ τὸ λανθάνειν ὡσ κατορθῶν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 21 3:1)
  • θεάσῃ γὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν, ὅπερ ὀλίγῳ πρόσθεν ἐλέγομεν, ἀκριβῶσ μὲν μεμυκότα τὸν πυλωρόν, ἅπασαν δὲ τὴν γαστέρα περιεσταλμένην τοῖσ σιτίοισ τρόπον ὁμοιότατον, οἱο͂́νπερ καὶ αἱ μῆτραι τοῖσ κυουμένοισ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 423)
  • ἐν δὲ τούτῳ καὶ τὸν πυλωρὸν εὑρ́ισκον ἀεὶ μεμυκότα καὶ κεκλεισμένον ἀκριβῶσ ὥσπερ τὸ τῶν ὑστερῶν στόμα ταῖσ ἐγκύμοσιν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 428)
  • καίτοι πρὶν διελθεῖν τό τε λεπτὸν ἔντερον ἅπαν καὶ τὴν νῆστιν καὶ τὸν πυλωρὸν καὶ τὴν γαστέρα καὶ τὸν οἰσοφάγον οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1340)

Synonyms

  1. a gate-keeper

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

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