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πορφυρίων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφυρίων πορφυρίωνος

Structure: πορφυριων (Stem)

Etym.: porfu/ra

Sense

  1. the water-hen

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πορφυρίων πορφυρίωνε πορφυρίωνες
Genitive πορφυρίωνος πορφυριώνοιν πορφυριώνων
Dative πορφυρίωνι πορφυριώνοιν πορφυρίωσιν*
Accusative πορφυρίωνα πορφυρίωνε πορφυρίωνας
Vocative πορφυρίων πορφυρίωνε πορφυρίωνες

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

  • ὦ Κεβριόνη καὶ Πορφυρίων ὡσ σμερδαλέον τὸ πόλισμα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme2)
  • πολλοὺσ δὲ καλοὺσ ἀπομωμοκότασ παῖδασ πρὸσ τέρμασιν ὡρ́ασ διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τὴν ἡμετέραν διεμήρισαν ἄνδρεσ ἐρασταί, ὁ μὲν ὄρτυγα δοὺσ ὁ δὲ πορφυρίων’ ὁ δὲ χῆν’ ὁ δὲ Περσικὸν ὄρνιν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis11)
  • καὶ δή ποτε εἷσ Πορφυρίων αὐτῷ παρέσχε πράγματα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:21)
  • Πορφυρίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 401)
  • τὰν οὐδὲ Πορφυρίων μάθεν παρ’ αἶσαν ἐξερεθίζων· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 8 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. the water-hen

Related

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

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