1. φρουρά · phroura — Beekes
watch, custody, guard, garrison, guarded place, prison
The corpus record
φρουρά
phroura
watch, custody, guard, garrison, guarded place, prison
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- In Defense of Mantitheus 1 · 8.76/10k
- Answer to Philip's Letter 1 · 7.76/10k
- Against Conon 2 · 6.31/10k
- Plataicus 2 · 6.28/10k
- Hellenica 33 · 5.02/10k
- On the Public Fund 1 · 4.33/10k
- On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
- Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k
- Machabaeorum I 7 · 4.02/10k
- Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
- Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
- Against Theocrines 1 · 2.15/10k
Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. φρουρά · phroura — Frisk
ion
3. φρουρά · phroura — LSJ
look-out, watch, guard
Attestations
- φρουρᾷ · phrourai Plato, Phaedo 62 (DIORISIS sentence 100)
- φρουρᾶι · phrourai Plotinus, Enneads 4.8 (DIORISIS sentence 3459)
- φρουρῆς · phrourēs Herodotus, Histories 2.30.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1738)
- φρουρῇ · phrourēi Herodotus, Histories 6.26.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6309)
- φρουρὴ · phrourē Herodotus, Histories 7.59.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7444)
- φρουρὰν · phrouran Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 136–143
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Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 1643-1644; entry #6460 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 2016-2017; entry #6001 Review: Under source audit
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