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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

  • καὶ τὸ οἴσεισ δ̓ ἐν φορμῷ, παῦροι δέ σε θηήσονται, καὶ πάλιν ὅσα ἀγαθὰ περιέσται τοῖσ ὀρθῶσ γεωργοῦσι, χρησιμωτάτη ἂν τῷ βίῳ μαντικὴ νομίζοιτο. (Lucian, 10:3)
  • εἰ δέ κεν ἠελίοιο τροπῇσ ἀρόῳσ χθόνα δῖαν, ἥμενοσ ἀμήσεισ ὀλίγον περὶ χειρὸσ ἐέργων, ἀντία δεσμεύων κεκονιμένοσ, οὐ μάλα χαίρων, οἴσεισ δ’ ἐν φορμῷ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 55:1)
  • ὃσ εὑρ͂ε τὴν κωμῳδίαν ἐν Συρακούσιασ ἅμα Φόρμῳ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section3)

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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