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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

  • Ἀκμαῖοσ ῥοθίῃ νηὶ δρόμοσ, οὐδὲ θάλασσα πορφύρει τρομερῇ φρικὶ χαρασσομένη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 21)
  • περιπλανώμενοι δὲ αὐτὴν οὗτοι ἀπίκοντο καὶ ἐσ Ἴτανον πόλιν, ἐν ταύτῃ δὲ συμμίσγουσι ἀνδρὶ πορφυρέι τῷ οὕνομα ἦν Κορώβιοσ, ὃσ ἔφη ὑπ’ ἀνέμων ἀπενειχθεὶσ ἀπικέσθαι ἐσ Λιβύην καὶ Λιβύησ ἐσ Πλατέαν νῆσον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 151 2:2)

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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