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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

  • ἐπεὰν ἐκ τοῦ ποταμοῦ φλοῦν ἀμήσωσι καὶ κόψωσι, τὸ ἐνθεῦτεν φορμοῦ τρόπον καταπλέξαντεσ ὡσ θώρηκα ἐνδύνουσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 98 5:2)
  • Μαρτυρία Ἱπποκράτησ Ἱπποκράτουσ Προβαλίσιοσ, Δημοσθένησ Δημοσθένουσ Παιανιεύσ, Διοφάνησ Διοφάνουσ Ἀλωπεκῆθεν, Δεινομένησ Ἀρχελάου Κυδαθηναιεύσ, Δεινίασ Φόρμου Κυδαντίδησ, Λυσίμαχοσ Λυσίππου Αἰγιλιεὺσ μαρτυροῦσι παρεῖναι ἐν ἀγορᾷ ὅτ’ Ἀπολλόδωροσ προὐκαλεῖτο Στέφανον, ἀξιῶν παραδοῦναι εἰσ βάσανον τὰσ θεραπαίνασ περὶ ὧν ᾐτιᾶτο Ἀπολλόδωροσ Στέφανον περὶ Νεαίρασ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 175:3)

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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