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φορμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορμός φορμοῦ

Structure: φορμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

a basket for carrying
a mat
a seaman's cloak, of coarse plaited stuff
a corn measure

Declension

Second declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	φορμός	φορμώ	φορμοί
Genitive	φορμοῦ	φορμοῖν	φορμῶν
Dative	φορμῷ	φορμοῖν	φορμοῖς
Accusative	φορμόν	φορμώ	φορμούς
Vocative	φορμέ	φορμώ	φορμοί

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

ἀλλ’ ἢν τὰ μέγισθ’ ὑφέληται φορμὸν πυρῶν τἀνδρὸσ κλέψασ’, αὐθημερὸν αὔτ’ ἀπέδωκεν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, parabasis19)
καὶ φορμὸν ἔχειν ἀντὶ τάπητοσ σαπρόν· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:6)
Προκλῆσ τοίνυν ὁ Ἐπιδαύρου τύραννοσ ἄλλουσ τε πολλοὺσ ὠμῶσ καὶ παρανόμωσ ἀνεῖλε καὶ Τίμαρχον ἀπ’ Ἀθηνῶν παραγενόμενον μετὰ χρημάτων πρὸσ αὐτὸν ὑποδεξάμενοσ καὶ φιλοφρονηθεὶσ ἀπέκτεινε, καὶ τὸ σῶμα κατεπόντισεν ἐμβαλὼν εἰσ φορμόν· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 198)
"ἀνεῖλεν οὖν ὁ θεὸσ διδόναι Προκλεῖ φυγὴν καὶ μετάστασιν, ὅπου τὸν φορμὸν ἐκέλευσε καταθέσθαι τὸν Αἰγινήτην ξένον ἢ ὅπου τὸ κέρασ; (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 1911)
διὸ οἱ ἐν πενίᾳ παριστάμενοι καὶ φυγαῖσ, κἂν μικρὰ ὑπηρετήσωσιν, διὰ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῆσ δεήσεωσ καὶ τὸν καιρὸν κεχαρισμένοι, οἱο͂ν ὁ ἐν Λυκείῳ τὸν φορμὸν δούσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 7 3:4)

Synonyms

a basket for carrying
- κόφινος (basket)
- σαργάνη (a basket)
- τάλαρος (a basket, a basket)
- κύρτη (a fishing-basket)
a mat
- ψίαθος (a rush mat)
- κάνης (a mat of reeds)
- κάννᾱ (reed mat)
- ταρσός (a mat of reeds)
- ὠλένη (mat, mattress )
a seaman's cloak
- σάγος (a coarse cloak)
a corn measure
- σιτομέτριον (a measured portion of corn)
- πτύον ( a corn-measure; hence δίπτυον ‎)
- ἀναμέτρησις (a measurement)
- μέτρησις (measuring, measurement)
- μετρητής (a measurer)

δαιτρός (one that carves)
δαιτρόν (one's portion)
ἡμιτάλαντον (a half-talent)
φοινικήιος (of the date-palm)
περιαυχένιος (put round the neck)
στάμνος (an earthen jar for racking off wine)
κρεάγρα (a flesh-hook)
συκέα (fig tree)
ἀλάβαστρον (a box or casket of alabaster)
πλεκτός (plaited)
ἀμόργινος (made of Amorgian flax)
μεσόλευκος (middling white)
λέκιθος (pulse-porridge)
πύρνον (wheaten bread)
ἐλάϊνος (of olive-wood)
ῥάπτω (I sew)
ῥαπτός (stitched)
ἀνοίγω (to open)
κόμαρος (the strawberry-tree)
φάρσος (a part)
νυκτερίς (a bat)
πινακίσκος ()
συφεός (a hog-sty)
πολύτιμος (very costly)
παιδίσκος (a young boy or son)
συστέλλω (to draw together)
λιθοκόλλητος (set with precious stones)
μόσχειος (of a calf)
Αἴγειος (of a goat or goats)
πιπράσκω (to sell)

Similar forms

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

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φορμός

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Synonyms

a basket for carrying

a mat

a seaman's cloak

a corn measure

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φορμός

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

a basket for carrying

a mat

a seaman's cloak

a corn measure

Related

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