νυκτοφύλαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νύξ (núx, “night”) + φύλαξ (phúlax, “guard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nyk.to.pʰý.laks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /nyk.toˈpʰy.laks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /nyk.toˈɸy.laks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /nyk.toˈfy.laks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /nik.toˈfi.laks/
Noun
νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξ • (nuktophúlax) m (genitive νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκος); third declension
- night-watchman, guard
- (at Rome) vigiles, the police
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξ; τοῦ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξ ho nuktophúlax | τὼ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκε tṑ nuktophúlake | οἱ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκες hoi nuktophúlakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκος toû nuktophúlakos | τοῖν νῠκτοφῠλᾰ́κοιν toîn nuktophulákoin | τῶν νῠκτοφῠλᾰ́κων tôn nuktophulákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκῐ tôi nuktophúlaki | νῠκτοφῠλᾰ́κοιν nuktophulákoin | τοῖς νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξῐ / νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξῐν toîs nuktophúlaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκᾰ tòn nuktophúlaka | νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκε nuktophúlake | τοὺς νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκᾰς toùs nuktophúlakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰξ nuktophúlax | νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκε nuktophúlake | νῠκτοφῠ́λᾰκες nuktophúlakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- νῠκτοφῠλᾰκέω (nuktophulakéō)
- νῠκτοφῠλᾰκῐ́ᾱ (nuktophulakíā)
Further reading
- νυκτοφύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νυκτοφύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νυκτοφύλαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette