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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

  • ἀσμένωσ δὲ τοῦ νεανίσκου τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν αὐτοῦ δεξαμένου καὶ παρασχόντοσ ὅσων εἰσ τὴν ἐμπορίαν ἐδεῖτο, πολλοὺσ μὲν ἀσκοὺσ οἴνου τε καὶ ἐλαίου ταῖσ ἁμάξαισ ἐπιθέμενοσ, πολλοὺσ δὲ φορμοὺσ σύκων ἦγεν εἰσ τὴν Κελτικήν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 10 5:1)

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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