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πορφυρίς?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: porphyris

Principal Part: πορφυρίς πορφυρίδος

Structure: πορφυριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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 ἁρ´ματος 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 δ᾿ 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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