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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

  • καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ σταθμὸσ τῶν ἐνωτίων τῶν χρυσῶν, ὧν ᾔτησε, χίλιοι καὶ ἑπτακόσιοι χρυσοῖ, πάρεξ τῶν μηνίσκων καὶ τῶν στραγγαλίδων καὶ τῶν ἱματίων καὶ πορφυρίδων τῶν ἐπὶ βασιλεῦσι Μαδιὰμ καὶ ἐκτὸσ τῶν περιθεμάτων, ἃ ἦν ἐν τοῖσ τραχήλοισ τῶν καμήλων αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 8:26)
  • καὶ τὸν μὲν στρατηλάτην αὐτὸν ἐφ’ ἁρ́ματοσ ὀχεῖσθαι παρδάλεων ὑπεζευγμένων, ἀγένειον ἀκριβῶσ, οὐδ’ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον τὴν παρειὰν χνοῶντα, κερασφόρον, βοτρύοισ ἐστεφανωμένον, μίτρᾳ τὴν κόμην ἀναδεδεμένον, ἐν πορφυρίδι καὶ χρυσῇ ἐμβάδι· (Lucian, (no name) 2:1)
  • 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)
  • πάντα γὰρ ἴσα καὶ ὁμόχροα καὶ οὐδὲν οὔτε καλὸν οὔτε κάλλιον, ἀλλ’ ἤδη καὶ τὸ τριβώνιον τέωσ ἄμορφον εἶναί μοι δοκοῦν ἰσότιμον γίγνεται τῇ πορφυρίδι τοῦ βασιλέωσ· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 22:4)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπόδυθι τὴν πορφυρίδα, ἵνα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἴδωμεν τῶν στιγμάτων. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 28:2)
  • 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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