φρέαρ

• φρεῖᾰρ (phreîar) – Epic

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰrḗwər, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₁wr̥ (“well, source”) (whence Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “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.

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

1. artificial well
2. tank, cistern, reservoir

   Synonym: λάκκος (lákkos)

• φύρω (phúrō, “to mix, mingle”)^{(el), (fr), (it)}

• Greek: φρέαρ (fréar)

• “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • well idem, page 973.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”).

φρέαρ • (fréar) n (plural φρέατα)

1. well (water source)

   Synonym: πηγάδι (pigádi)

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

   Φρέαρ της Καλυψώς ― Fréar tis Kalypsós ― Calypso Deep

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

• Αρτεσιανό νερό on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el