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ἔμπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπορος ἔμπορον

Structure: ἐμπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, po/ros, cf. pera/w

Sense

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger
  2. any one on a journey, a traveller, wanderer
  3. a merchant, trader, a trafficker

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative έ̓μπορος έ̓μπορον
Genitive ἐμπόρου ἐμπόρου
Dative ἐμπόρῳ ἐμπόρῳ
Accusative έ̓μπορον έ̓μπορον
Vocative έ̓μπορε έ̓μπορον
DualN/A/V ἐμπόρω ἐμπόρω
G/D ἐμπόροιν ἐμπόροιν
PluralNominative έ̓μποροι έ̓μπορα
Genitive ἐμπόρων ἐμπόρων
Dative ἐμπόροις ἐμπόροις
Accusative ἐμπόρους έ̓μπορα
Vocative έ̓μποροι έ̓μπορα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective έ̓μπορος ἐμπόρου ἐμπορώτερος ἐμπορωτέρου ἐμπορώτατος ἐμπορωτάτου
Adverb ἐμπόρως ἐμπορώτερον ἐμπορώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • λῦσον ἀπ’ εὐόρμων δολιχὰ πρυμνήσια νηῶν, εὔτροχα δ’ ἐκπετάσασ λαίφεα ποντοπόρει, ἔμπορε’ χειμῶνεσ γὰρ ἀπέδραμον, ἄρτι δὲ κῦμα γλαυκὸν θηλύνει πρηΰγελωσ Ζέφυροσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 41)
  • ἔμπορε καὶ φορτηγέ, τὸ σὸν βαλλάντιον οἶδεν καὶ πόθεν αἱ ζῶναι καὶ πόθεν οἱ πίνακεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1592)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἡλίσκοντο ῥᾳδίωσ, καὶ τὸ ἐμπόριον οὐ παντελῶσ ἄπωθεν ἦν μέγα καὶ πολυχρήματον, ἡ Δῆλοσ, δυναμένη μυριάδασ ἀνδραπόδων αὐθημερὸν καὶ δέξασθαι καὶ ἀποπέμψαι, ὥστε καὶ παροιμίαν γενέσθαι διὰ τοῦτο "ἔμπορε, κατάπλευσον, ἐξελοῦ, πάντα πέπραται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger

Related

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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