νομοφύλαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νόμος (nómos, “law”) + φύλαξ (phúlax, “guard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /no.mo.pʰý.laks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /no.moˈpʰy.laks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /no.moˈɸy.laks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /no.moˈfy.laks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /no.moˈfi.laks/
Noun
νομοφῠ́λᾰξ • (nomophúlax) m (genitive νομοφῠ́λᾰκος); third declension
- guardian of the laws, a title of officials appointed to watch over the laws and their observance
- minor official under control of village elders, with police and fiscal duties
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ νομοφῠ́λᾰξ; τοῦ νομοφῠ́λᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νομοφῠ́λᾰξ ho nomophúlax | τὼ νομοφῠ́λᾰκε tṑ nomophúlake | οἱ νομοφῠ́λᾰκες hoi nomophúlakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νομοφῠ́λᾰκος toû nomophúlakos | τοῖν νομοφῠλᾰ́κοιν toîn nomophulákoin | τῶν νομοφῠλᾰ́κων tôn nomophulákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νομοφῠ́λᾰκῐ tôi nomophúlaki | νομοφῠλᾰ́κοιν nomophulákoin | τοῖς νομοφῠ́λᾰξῐ / νομοφῠ́λᾰξῐν toîs nomophúlaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νομοφῠ́λᾰκᾰ tòn nomophúlaka | νομοφῠ́λᾰκε nomophúlake | τοὺς νομοφῠ́λᾰκᾰς toùs nomophúlakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | νομοφῠ́λᾰξ nomophúlax | νομοφῠ́λᾰκε nomophúlake | νομοφῠ́λᾰκες nomophúlakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- νομοφυλακέω (nomophulakéō)
- νομοφυλακία (nomophulakía)
- νομοφυλακικός (nomophulakikós)
- νομοφυλάκιον (nomophulákion)
- νομοφυλακίς (nomophulakís)
Descendants
- → English: nomophylax
References
- νομοφύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νομοφύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νομοφύλαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette