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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

  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε πορφύρῃ πέλαγοσ μέγα κύματι κωφῷ ὀσσόμενον λιγέων ἀνέμων λαιψηρὰ κέλευθα αὔτωσ, οὐδ’ ἄρα τε προκυλίνδεται οὐδετέρωσε, πρίν τινα κεκριμένον καταβήμεναι ἐκ Διὸσ οὖρον, ὣσ ὃ γέρων ὁρ́μαινε δαϊζόμενοσ κατὰ θυμὸν διχθάδι’, ἢ μεθ’ ὅμιλον ἰοί Δαναῶν ταχυπώλων, ἠε͂ μετ’ Ἀτρεί̈δην Ἀγαμέμνονα ποιμένα λαῶν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 14 3:5)

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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