ὁδοφύλαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὁδός (hodós, “street, road”) + φύλαξ (phúlax, “guard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ho.do.pʰý.laks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)o.doˈpʰy.laks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.ðoˈɸy.laks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.ðoˈfy.laks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.ðoˈfi.laks/
Noun
ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ • (hodophúlax) m (genitive ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκος); third declension
- watcher of the roads
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ; τοῦ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ ho hodophúlax | τὼ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκε tṑ hodophúlake | οἱ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκες hoi hodophúlakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκος toû hodophúlakos | τοῖν ὁδοφῠλᾰ́κοιν toîn hodophulákoin | τῶν ὁδοφῠλᾰ́κων tôn hodophulákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκῐ tôi hodophúlaki | ὁδοφῠλᾰ́κοιν hodophulákoin | τοῖς ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξῐ / ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξῐν toîs hodophúlaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκᾰ tòn hodophúlaka | ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκε hodophúlake | τοὺς ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκᾰς toùs hodophúlakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ hodophúlax | ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκε hodophúlake | ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκες hodophúlakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁδοφῠλᾰκέω (hodophulakéō)
Further reading
- ὁδοφύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὁδοφύλαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette