Hellas Alive Dictionary - πορφυρις

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πορφυρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine

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Structure: πορφυριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

a purple garment or covering
a red-coloured bird

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	πορφυρίς	πορφυρίδε	πορφυρίδες
Genitive	πορφυρίδος	πορφυρίδοιν	πορφυρίδων
Dative	πορφυρίδι	πορφυρίδοιν	πορφυρίσιν*
Accusative	πορφυρίδα	πορφυρίδε	πορφυρίδας
Vocative	πορφυρί	πορφυρίδε	πορφυρίδες

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Examples

ἐμὸσ γὰρ ὁ ἀνήρ, ὡσ ἔστιν ὁρᾶν ἀπὸ τῶν στεφάνων καὶ τῆσ πορφυρίδοσ καὶ τῶν μύρων. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 23:4)
ὁ δὲ τρίβων οὗτοσ ἧσ βούλει πορφυρίδοσ ἀμείνων. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 55:2)
Καλλίμαχοσ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ὀρνίθων διεστάναι φησὶ πορφυρίωνα πορφυρίδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 2:5)
ἐχθραίνει γὰρ τοὺσ προσιόντασ αὐτοῦ τῇ τροφῇ, τῆσ δὲ πορφυρίδοσ καὶ Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν Ὄρνισιν μνημονεύει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 2:8)
Ὁ δὲ Φιλοποίμην, ἐπιγνοὺσ τὸν Μαχανίδαν ἀπό τε τῆσ πορφυρίδοσ καὶ τοῦ περὶ τὸν ἵππον κόσμου, τοὺσ μὲν περὶ τὸν Ἀναξίδαμον ἀπολείπει, παρακαλέσασ τηρεῖν ἐπιμελῶσ τὴν δίοδον καὶ μηδενὸσ φείδεσθαι τῶν μισθοφόρων διὰ τὸ τούτουσ εἶναι τοὺσ συναύξοντασ αἰεὶ τὰσ ἐν τῇ Σπάρτῃ τυραννίδασ· (Polybius, Histories, book 11, chapter 18 1:1)

Synonyms

a red-coloured bird
- σάνδυξ (a bright red colour)
- λυχνίτης (a precious stone of a red colour)

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

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a red-coloured bird

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