The corpus record

ὑπασπ-ιστής

upaspistes · ὁ

shield-bearer, armour-bearer, esquire

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ὑπασπ-ιστής · hypasp-istēs — LSJ

shield-bearer, armour-bearer, esquire

shield-bearer, armour-bearer, esquire, Hdt. 5.111, E. Rh. 2 (anap.), Ph. 1213, X. An. 4.2.20, etc.

pl., a brigade of guards in the Macedonian army, D.S. 19.40, Arr. An. 2.4.3, 2.20.6.

In the wild

ὑπασπιστοῦ · hypaspistou Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 710)
ὑπασπιστῶν · hypaspistōn Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 2)
ὑπασπιστὴς · hypaspistēs Herodotus, Histories 5.111.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6117)
ὑπασπιστῇ · hypaspistēi Herodotus, Histories 5.112.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6130)
ὑπασπιστῶν · hypaspistōn Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 3
ὑπασπισταὶ · hypaspistai Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 9

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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