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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

  • τὰ δεσποτῶν γὰρ εὖ πεσόντα θήσομαι τρὶσ ἓξ βαλούσησ τῆσδέ μοι φρυκτωρίασ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 4:3)
  • οἱ δὲ παρὰ τούτων τὴν ἀρχὴν παραλαβόντεσ, Σπόριοσ Ναύτιοσ καὶ Σέξτοσ Φούριοσ, στρατιάν θ’ ὅσην ἐδύναντο πλείστην ἐκ τοῦ πολιτικοῦ κατεστήσαντο καταλόγου, καὶ φρυκτωρίασ καὶ σκοποὺσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπικαιροτάτοισ φρουρίοισ ἔταξαν, ἵνα μηδὲν ἀγνοήσωσι τῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ χώρασ πραττομένων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 16 1:1)

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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