English Explanatory Dictionary

promachos

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A deity who fights in front of, or champions, some person or state.
  2. In Ancient Greece and during the Byzantine era, a soldier who fought in the first rank of the phalanx. An obsolete English literal translation of such a promachos is a 'forefighter'.

Word forms

promachos promachoi

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρόμαχος (prómakhos).

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