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φρυγανισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρυγανισμός φρυγανισμοῦ

Structure: φρυγανισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from frugani/zomai

Sense

  1. a gathering of dry sticks for fuel, a collecting firewood

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 τὰσ μὲν πολλὰσ τῶν νεῶν πρὸ τοῦ λιμένοσ ἐν μετεώρῳ παρέταξαν, εἴ πῃ ἐκκαλέσαιντο ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ τοὺσ Μακεδόνασ, πέντε δὲ αὐτῶν εἰσέπλευσαν ἐσ τὸν μεταξὺ τῆσ τε Λάδησ νήσου καὶ τοῦ στρατοπέδου λιμένα, ἐλπίσαντεσ κενὰσ καταλήψεσθαι τὰσ Ἀλεξάνδρου ναῦσ, ὅτι τοὺσ ναύτασ ἀποσκεδάννυσθαι τὸ πολὺ ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν τοὺσ μὲν ἐπὶ φρυγανισμῷ, τοὺσ δὲ ἐπὶ ξυγκομιδῇ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, τοὺσ δὲ καὶ ἐσ προνομὰσ ταττομένουσ, πεπυσμένοι ἦσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 19 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a gathering of dry sticks for fuel

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

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