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φωλάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φωλάς φωλάδος

Structure: φωλαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = fwleu/ousa

Sense

  1. lurking in a hole, lying torpid in its cave
  2. full of lurking places

Declension

Third 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

  • τοὔνεκα μηρύσασθε διάβροχα, πείσματα ναῦται, ἕλκετε δ’ ἀγκύρασ φωλάδασ ἐκ λιμένων· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. full of lurking places

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

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