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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

Greek Monolingual

πάγασα (Α)
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) «θύρα, καὶ παγασαί».

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: θύρα. καὶ παγασαί H.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Furnèe 157 n. 57 identifies the word with the town Παγασαί in Thessaly. The suffix also in κάρπασον. The word is Pre-Greek. Other place names in -ασα are mentioned by Furnée 64 n. 268: Περγασα etc.