φρέαρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ep. φρεῖαρ <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>486</span>, τό, gen. [[φρέᾱτος]] (v. sub fin.), contr. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> φρητός <span class="title">IGRom.</span>1.1167<span class="hiitalic">C</span>6 (Egypt, i A. D.), Hdn.Gr.1.409; Ep. dat. φρέᾰτι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>99</span> (s. v.l.), φρητί <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Cer.</span>15</span>; pl. [[φρέᾱτα]], also φρῆτα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>499.12</span> (iii B. C.); Ep. pl. [[φρείᾰτα]] (v. infr.):—[[an artificial well]] (thus distd. from [[κρήνη]], cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.120</span>, <span class="bibl">D.14.30</span>; but <b class="b3">φ. ἀσφάλτον</b> naphtha-[[spring]], <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ge.</span>14.10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.119</span>), πᾶσαι κρῆναι καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν <span class="bibl">Il.21.197</span>; the stem φρεατ - first in <span class="title">h.Cer.</span>l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> later, [[tank]], [[cistern]], [[reservoir]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.68</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.48</span>,<span class="bibl">49</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHal.</span>1.98</span> (iii B. C.), etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">La.</span>193c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Prt.</span>350a</span>; φ. ὀρώρυκται <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>8.129</span>; <b class="b3">ποιητὰ φ</b>., v. [[ποιητός]] ''1'': generally, [[pit]], φ. διαφθορᾶς <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ps.</span>54</span> (<span class="bibl">55</span>). <span class="bibl">24</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> perh. [[oil-jar]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>810</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>174c</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος</b> ib. <span class="bibl">165b</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις</b>, prov. of persons 'on the brink of a volcano', Plu.2.68b; <b class="b3">λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει</b> prov. ap. Hsch., Phot.; <b class="b3">πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος</b>, i.e. a large wine-cup, <span class="bibl">Ath.5.192a</span>, cf. Chamaeleon ap.eund.<span class="bibl">11.461c</span>. [Att. gen. φρέᾱτος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>1004</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span> 295</span>, <span class="bibl">Stratt.57</span> (troch.), <span class="bibl">Alex.179</span>, <span class="bibl">Apollod.Gel.1</span>.] (Orig. [[frhvṛ]], gen. <b class="b3">frhvṇτος,</b> cf. Arm. [[albiur]] 'well', Goth. and OE. [[brunna]] 'stream, burn', Lat. [[ferveo]], [[defrutum]].) </span>

|btext=φρέατος (τό) :<br /><b>I.</b> puits : <i>◊ prov.</i> ἡ περὶ τὸ [[φρέαρ]] [[ὄρχησις]] PLUT la danse autour du puits <i>en parl. de <i>pers.</i> qui ne voient pas le danger</i>;<br /><b>II.</b> <i>p. anal.</i><br /><b>1</b> citerne, réservoir d’eau;<br /><b>2</b> cuve pour l’huile nouvelle.<br />'''Étymologie:''' p. *φρέϜαρ &gt; *φρύαρ, de *Ϝρύω, c. [[ἐρύω]], puiser.