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φορμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορμός φορμοῦ

Structure: φορμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. a basket for carrying
  2. a mat
  3. a seaman's cloak, of coarse plaited stuff
  4. a corn measure

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν κριοὺσ λίθοισ ἀπεκαύλιζον ἢ βρόχοισ ἀνέκλων ἢ φορμοῖσ ἐρίων τῆσ βίασ ἐξέλυον, τῶν δὲ βελῶν τοῖσ μὲν πυρφόροισ ὑπήντων ὕδατι καὶ ὄξει, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα προβολαῖσ ἱματίων ἢ ὀθόναισ κεχαλασμέναισ τῆσ φορᾶσ ἀνέλυον, ὅλωσ τε οὐδὲν προθυμίασ ἀνδρὶ δυνατῆσ ἐξέλειπον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 3:6)
  • χώσασ δὲ φορμοῖσ ἀχύρων σεσαγμένοισ τὰσ τάφρουσ ἔλαθε τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἀπαγαγὼν ἀσφαλῶσ τὴν δύναμιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 19 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. a basket for carrying

  2. a mat

  3. a seaman's cloak

  4. a corn measure

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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