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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πορφυρεύς πορφυρή πορφυρής
Genitive πορφυρέως πορφυρέοιν πορφυρέων
Dative πορφυρεί πορφυρέοιν πορφυρεῦσιν*
Accusative πορφυρέα πορφυρή πορφυρέᾱς
Vocative πορφυρεύ πορφυρή πορφυρής

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

  • οἱ δ’ ἐν θαλάσσῃ λαίλαπι κλονεύμενοι καὶ κύμασιν πολλοῖσι πορφυρῆσ ἁλὸσ θνῄσκουσιν, εὖτ’ ἂν νῆα νήσωνται ζοῇ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 12)
  • εἰπόντων δὲ τῶν Ἰχθυοφάγων τὴν ἀληθείην περὶ τῆσ πορφύρησ καὶ τῆσ βαφῆσ, δολεροὺσ μὲν τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἔφη εἶναι, δολερὰ δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ εἵματα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 22 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a fisher for purple fish

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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