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φρυκτωρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρυκτωρία

Structure: φρυκτωρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fruktwro/s

Sense

  1. a giving signals by beacons or alarm fires, telegraphing

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

  • καὶ νῦν ἅπαντ’ ἐκεῖνα πεπύλωται πύλαισ καὶ βεβαλάνωται καὶ φυλάττεται κύκλῳ, ἐφοδεύεται, κωδωνοφορεῖται, πανταχῇ, φυλακαὶ καθεστήκασι καὶ φρυκτωρίαι ἐν τοῖσι πύργοισ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. a giving signals by beacons or alarm fires

Related

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

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