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φρεατία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρεατία

Structure: φρεατι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fre/ar

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

  • ἐπιπολῆσ μὲν γὰρ οὐδέν ἐστι φαινόμενον ὕδωρ ἐν τοῖσ προειρημένοισ τόποισ, ὑπόνομοι δὲ πλείουσ εἰσὶ καὶ διὰ τῆσ ἐρήμου φρεατίασ ἔχοντεσ ἀγνοουμένασ τοῖσ ἀπείροισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 28 2:1)
  • πλὴν ὁρῶν Ἀρσάκησ ἐπιβαλόμενον αὐτὸν τῇ διὰ τῆσ ἐρήμου πορείᾳ, τὸ τηνικάδε χωννύειν καὶ φθείρειν ἐνεχείρησε τὰσ φρεατίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 28 5:1)

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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