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

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

  • ἀπόλαυσισ μέν γε οὐδὲ ὄναρ τῶν ἡδέων, ἀλλὰ δόξα μόνη καὶ πορφυρὶσ χρυσῷ ποικίλη καὶ ταινία λευκὴ περὶ τῷ μετώπῳ καὶ δορυφόροι προϊόντεσ, τὰ δ̓ ἄλλα κάματοσ ἀφόρητοσ καὶ ἀηδία πολλή, καὶ ἢ χρηματίζειν δεῖ τοῖσ παρα τῶν πολεμίων ἥκουσιν ἢ δικάζειν ἢ καταπέμπειν τοῖσ ὑπηκόοισ ἐπιτάγματα, καὶ ἤτοι ἀφέστηκέ τι ἔθνοσ ἢ ἐπελαύνουσί τινεσ τῶν ἔξω τῆσ ἀρχῆσ. (Lucian, 67:2)
  • κίττα τρυγὼν κορυδὸσ ἐλεᾶσ ὑποθυμὶσ περιστερὰ νέρτοσ ἱέραξ φάττα κόκκυξ ἐρυθρόπουσ κεβλήπυρισ πορφυρὶσ κερχνῂσ κολυμβὶσ ἀμπελὶσ φήην δρύοψ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric48)
  • Πορφυρίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 2:4)
  • ἐν ἄλλοισ δέ φησιν αἰεὶ μ’, ὦ φίλε θυμέ, ὁ τανύπτεροσ ὡσ ὅκα πορφυρίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 3:2)

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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