ὁδοφύλαξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁδός (hodós, “street, road”) +‎ φύλαξ (phúlax, “guard”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.do.pʰý.laks/ → /o.ðoˈɸy.laks/ → /o.ðoˈfi.laks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.do.pʰý.laks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.doˈpʰy.laks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.ðoˈɸy.laks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ðoˈfy.laks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.ðoˈfi.laks/

Noun

ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ • (hodophúlax) m (genitive ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκος); third declension

1. watcher of the roads

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ; τοῦ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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	τοῖν ὁδοφῠλᾰ́κοιν toîn hodophulákoin	τοῖς ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξῐ / ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξῐν toîs hodophúlaxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκᾰ tòn hodophúlaka	τὼ ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκε tṑ hodophúlake	τοὺς ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκᾰς toùs hodophúlakas
Vocative	ὁδοφῠ́λᾰξ hodophúlax	ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκε hodophúlake	ὁδοφῠ́λᾰκες hodophúlakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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