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φρεατία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: phreatia

Principal Part: φρεατία

Structure: φρεατι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from φρέαρ

Sense

  1. a tank or reservoir

Declension

First 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

  • ὡς δ ἐκ τοῦ τείχους ἐκθένοντες πολλάκις ἐνέβαλον εἰς τὸ ὄρυγμα καὶ ξύλα καὶ λίθους, ποιησάμενος αὖ χελώνην ξυλίνην ἐπέστησεν ἐπὶ τῇ φρεατίᾳ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. a tank or reservoir

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

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