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ταφρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταφρεία

Structure: ταφρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from tafreu/w

Sense

  1. a making of ditches or trenches

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

  • πλημμυρεῖ γὰρ ὁ Εὐφράτησ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ θέρουσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐάροσ ἀρξάμενοσ, ἡνίκα τήκονται αἱ χιόνεσ αἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ Ἀρμενίασ, ὥστ’ ἀνάγκη λιμνάζειν καὶ κατακλύζεσθαι τὰσ ἀρούρασ, εἰ μὴ διοχετεύει τισ ταφρείαισ καὶ διώρυξι τὸ ἐκπῖπτον τοῦ ῥοῦ καὶ ἐπιπολάζον ὕδωρ, καθάπερ καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τὸ τοῦ Νείλου· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 18:7)

Synonyms

  1. a making of ditches or trenches

Related

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

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