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ποντοπόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποντοπόρος ποντοπόρον

Structure: ποντοπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poreu/omai

Sense

  1. passing over the sea, seafaring

Examples

  • ὅθ’ Ἑλλάδοσ ἄγαγε πρῶτον ἄνθοσ ἀτυζόμενοσ πώλων, Σιμόεντι δ’ ἐπ’ εὐρείτᾳ πλάταν ἔσχασε ποντοπόρον καὶ ναύδετ’ ἀνήψατο πρυμνᾶν καὶ χερὸσ εὐστοχίαν ἐξεῖλε ναῶν, Λαομέδοντι φόνον· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. passing over the sea

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

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