ἀφεδρών

Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀφεδρών • (aphedrṓn) m (genitive ἀφεδρῶνος); third declension

1. toilet, latrine
   • Ου νοειτε ... οτι ουκ εισπορευεται αυτου εις την καρδιαν αλλ' εις την κοιλιαν, και εις τον αφεδρωνα εκπορευεται, καθαριζον παντα τα βρωματα;
     Don't you think ... that it doesn't go into his heart but into his belly, and it goes out into the toilet, cleaning all the foods? (Mark 7:19)
   • Οι αστυνομοι επιμελειαν ποιεισθωσαν των τε δημοσιων αφεδρωνων και των εξ αυτων υπονομων, και εαν τινες μη στεγνοι υπαρχωσιν και των ...
     The town clerks shall take care of both the public toilets and the sewers coming out of them, and if any are missing their lids and their ... (Laws of the town clerks of Pergamos)

See also

• Aphedron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “ἀφεδρών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀφεδρών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀφεδρών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀφεδρών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G856 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀφεδρών in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften