φρέαρ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φρεῖᾰρ (phreîar) — Epic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰrḗwər, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₁wr̥ (“well, source”) (whence Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhúrvan, “restless movement of water”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fountain, source”), Proto-Germanic *brunnô), from *bʰrewh₁-, which is cognate with Latin ferveō, English burn, brew. The original vowel sequence *ηᾰ (*ēa) was changed to εᾱ (eā) by quantitative metathesis.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰré.aːr/ → /ˈɸre.ar/ → /ˈfre.ar/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰré.aːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰre.ar/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸre.ar/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfre.ar/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfre.ar/

Noun

φρέᾱρ • (phréār) n (genitive φρέᾱτος); third declension

1. a well

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φρέᾱρ; τοῦ φρέᾱτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φρέᾱρ tò phréār	τὼ φρέᾱτε tṑ phréāte	τᾰ̀ φρέᾱτᾰ tà phréāta
Genitive	τοῦ φρέᾱτος toû phréātos	τοῖν φρεᾱ́τοιν toîn phreā́toin	τῶν φρεᾱ́των tôn phreā́tōn
Dative	τῷ φρέᾱτῐ tôi phréāti	τοῖν φρεᾱ́τοιν toîn phreā́toin	τοῖς φρέᾱσῐ / φρέᾱσῐν toîs phréāsi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φρέᾱρ tò phréār	τὼ φρέᾱτε tṑ phréāte	τᾰ̀ φρέᾱτᾰ tà phréāta
Vocative	φρέᾱρ phréār	φρέᾱτε phréāte	φρέᾱτᾰ phréāta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “φρέαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φρέαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φρέαρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5421 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • well idem, page 973.

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Greek

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”)

Noun

φρέαρ • (fréar) n (plural φρέατα)

1. well (water source)
2. shaft (of lift or elevator)
3. manhole
4. deep, trench (on sea bed)

   Φρέαρ της Καλυψώς

   Fréar tis Kalypsós

   Calypso Deep

Declension

Declension of φρέαρ

	singular	plural
nominative	φρέαρ •	φρέατα •
genitive	φρέατος •	φρεάτων •
accusative	φρέαρ •	φρέατα •
vocative	φρέαρ •	φρέατα •

Synonyms

• πηγάδι n (pigádi)

Related terms

• αρτεσιανό φρέαρ n (artesianó fréar, “artesian well”)

Further reading

• Φρέαρ της Καλυψώς on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el