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ὑπασπιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπασπιστής ὑπασπιστοῦ

Structure: ὑπασπιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shield-bearer, armour-bearer, esquire

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

  • ἔρημοσ παῖσ ὑπασπιστοῦ σέθεν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 13:12)
  • καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔλεγε καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ὑπασπιστοῦ λαβὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα ἐν χώρᾳ αὐτοῦ μαχόμενοσ ἀποθνῄσκει. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 8 45:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shield-bearer

Related

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

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