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τειχοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τειχοφύλαξ τειχοφύλακος

Structure: τειχοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a guard of the walls

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τειχοφύλαξ τειχοφύλακε τειχοφύλακες
Genitive τειχοφύλακος τειχοφυλάκοιν τειχοφυλάκων
Dative τειχοφύλακι τειχοφυλάκοιν τειχοφύλαξιν*
Accusative τειχοφύλακα τειχοφύλακε τειχοφύλακας
Vocative τειχοφύλαξ τειχοφύλακε τειχοφύλακες

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

  • ὁ δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ πύργου αὐτῷ ἀντεφώνησε μηδὲν εἶναι δεινόν, ἀλλὰ τὸν κύνα πρὸσ τὸ φῶσ τῶν τειχοφυλάκων καὶ τὸν ψόφον τοῦ κώδωνοσ παρωξύνθαι. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 8 2:2)
  • λιποθυμοῦντοσ οὖν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπολιπόντοσ, ἠναγκάσθησαν οἱ στρατιῶται προσδραμόντεσ τοῖσ τείχεσιν ἄρτον αἰτῆσαι παρὰ τῶν τειχοφυλάκων πολεμίων· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a guard of the walls

Similar forms

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

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