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φορτίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορτίς φορτίδος

Structure: φορτιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from fo/rtos

Sense

  1. a ship of burden, merchantman

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ὅθεν αἱ φορτίδεσ αἱ Βιθύου, καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἔμποροσ ὑπὸ κέρδουσ ἐθελοκινδύνωσ ἠπείγετο, φυλάσσοντεσ ἄνεμον ἐκ πόντου πολὺν πεπετασμένοισ τοῖσ ἱστίοισ διέθεον, ἀδυνάτων οὐσῶν ἔτι τῶν τριήρων ὁλκάδασ φερομένασ ἱστίῳ καὶ πνεύματι διώκειν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 4:7)

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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