φραγμός

φρᾰγμός • (phragmós) m (genitive φρᾰγμοῦ); second declension

1. blockage, stoppage, stopping up;
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1387
   1. (medical) intestinal blockage;
      • 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Acute Diseases 3.138
2. enclosure, palisade, fence, hedge;
   • Aesop, 385
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 11.4
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, 5.108
   • Archias, Analecta Patristica 9.343.1
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 21.33
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 14.23
   1. hedge (nickname for a man w. thick beard);
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Soloestica 27
   2. parapet (of a bridge);
      • 484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 7.36.5
      1. (by extension) fortification, shelter;
         • 484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 7.142.2
3. division
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Ephesians 2.14

Ancient Greek φραγμός (phragmós), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō)

φραγμός • (fragmós) n (plural φραγμοί)

1. (chiefly figuratively) restraint, barrier in anything, mainly in feelings, expressions etc.

   Δεν έχει κανένα ηθικό φραγμό να ξελογιάσει τη γυναίκα σου.

   Den échei kanéna ithikó fragmó na xelogiásei ti gynaíka sou.

   He doesn't have any moral restraint in seducing your wife.

• φράγμα n (frágma, “dam, barrier”)