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πορφυρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφυρίς πορφυρίδος

Structure: πορφυριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: porfu/ra

Sense

  1. a purple garment or covering
  2. a red-coloured bird

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ γελάσομαι τότε γνωρίσασ αὐτῶν ἕκαστον γυμνὸν ἐν τῷ σκαφιδίῳ μήτε τὴν πορφυρίδα μήτε τιάραν ἢ κλίνην χρυσῆν κομίζοντασ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 14:10)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπόδυθι τὴν πορφυρίδα, ἵνα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἴδωμεν τῶν στιγμάτων. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 28:2)
  • εἰ δ̓ ἐθέλεισ ἐπέραστοσ εἶναι, μὴ ἐπίσειε τὴν αἰγίδα μηδὲ τὸν κεραυνὸν φέρε, ἀλλ̓ ὡσ ἥδιστον ποίει σεαυτὸν ἑκατέρωθεν καθειμένοσ βοστρύχουσ, τῇ μίτρᾳ τούτουσ ἀνειλημμένοσ, πορφυρίδα ἔχε, ὑποδέου χρυσίδασ, ὑπ̓ αὐλῷ καὶ τυμπάνοισ εὔρυθμα βαῖνε, καὶ ὄψει ὅτι πλείουσ ἀκολουθήσουσί σοι τῶν Διονύσου Μαινάδων. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:5)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ εἰ καὶ μηδὲν ἄλλο, οὔτε ἐδούλευσα ὥσπερ σὺ οὔτε ἔξαινον ἔρια ἐν Λυδίᾳ πορφυρίδα ἐνδεδυκὼσ καὶ παιόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ Ὀμφάλησ χρυσῷ σανδάλῳ, ἀλλὰ οὐδὲ μελαγχολήσασ ἀπέκτεινα τὰ τέκνα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τὴν πορφυρίδα οὑτοσὶ καὶ τὸ διάδημα ὁ βλοσυρὸσ τίσ ὢν τυγχάνεισ; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a red-coloured bird

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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