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πορφυρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφυρεύς πορφυρέως

Structure: πορφυρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a fisher for purple fish

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

  • ἴσχει δέ με πορφυρέασ ἁλὸσ, ἀμφιταρασσομένασ ὀρυμαγδόσ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 8 5:1)
  • "ὅμωσ μέντοι γε οὐκ εὖ εἴρηκε Φρύνιχοσ πορφυρέασ εἰπὼν τὰσ γνάθουσ τοῦ καλοῦ, εἰ γὰρ ὁ ζωγράφοσ χρώματι πορφυρέῳ ἐναλείψειε τοῦδε τοῦ παιδὸσ τὰσ γνάθουσ, οὐκ ἂν ἔτι καλὸσ φαίνοιτο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 8114)
  • αἴνει δὲ Γλυκέραν Διονυσίου, ἅ μ’ ἀνέθηκε πορφυρέασ ἁπαλὸν κῦμα παρ’ ἠιόνοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2492)
  • εἰάροσ ἤνθει μὲν τὸ πρὶν ῥόδα, νῦν δ’ ἐνὶ μέσσῳ χείματι πορφυρέασ ἐσχάσαμεν κάλυκασ, σῇ ἐπιμειδήσαντα γενεθλίῃ ἄσμενα τῇδε ἠοῖ, νυμφιδίων ἀσσοτάτῃ λεχέων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3451)

Synonyms

  1. a fisher for purple fish

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

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