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βραχύπορος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: brachyporos

Principal Part: βραχύπορος βραχύπορα βραχύπορον

Structure: βραχυπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with a short passage
  2. with narrow passage

Examples

  • οὐ μόνον φυτοῖς ἐγγείοις, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν ἐπιγείοις ζῴοις φορὰ καὶ ἀφορία ψυχῆς τε καὶ σωμάτων γίγνονται, ὅταν περιτροπαὶ ἑκάστοις κύκλων περιφορὰς συνάπτωσι, βραχυβίοις μὲν βραχυπόρους, ἐναντίοις δὲ ἐναντίας. (Plato, Republic, book 8 46:5)

Synonyms

  1. with a short passage

  2. with narrow passage

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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