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φρυκτωρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρυκτωρός φρυκτωροῦ

Structure: φρυκτωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: frukto/s II, ou)=ros2

Sense

  1. a fire-watch, one who watches to give signals by beacon-fires

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

  • καί τίσ μ’ ἐνίπτων εἶπε, "φρυκτωρῶν δία πεισθεῖσα Τροίαν νῦν πεπορθῆσθαι δοκεῖσ; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. a fire-watch

Related

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

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