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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 ὁ Νωβελίων ἀπιστῶν ἅπασιν ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ διεχείμαζε, στεγάσασ ὡσ ἐδύνατο, καὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἔχων ἔνδον, καὶ κακοπαθῶν αὐτῆσ τε τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ τῇ ὀλιγότητι καὶ νιφετοῦ πυκνότητι καὶ κρύουσ χαλεπότητι, ὥστε πολλοὶ τῶν στρατιωτῶν οἱ μὲν ἐν τοῖσ φρυγανισμοῖσ, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἔνδον ὑπὸ στενοχωρίασ καὶ κρύουσ ἀπώλλυντο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 4:6)

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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