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φρυκτώριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρυκτώριον

Structure: φρυκτωρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from fruktwro/s

Sense

  1. a beacon-tower, light-house

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

  • ‐ τάχ’ εἰσόμεσθα λαμπάδων φαεσφόρων φρυκτωριῶν τε καὶ πυρὸσ παραλλαγάσ, εἴτ’ οὖν ἀληθεῖσ εἶτ’ ὀνειράτων δίκην τερπνὸν τόδ’ ἐλθὸν φῶσ ἐφήλωσεν φρένασ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, epode 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. a beacon-tower

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

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