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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

  • καὶ πορφυρίωνα καὶ πελεκᾶνα καὶ κύκνον (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:18)
  • καὶ πελεκᾶνα καὶ χαραδριὸν καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ καὶ πορφυρίωνα καὶ νυκτερίδα. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 14:18)
  • Καλλίμαχοσ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ὀρνίθων διεστάναι φησὶ πορφυρίωνα πορφυρίδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 2:5)
  • τὴν τροφήν τε λαμβάνειν τὸν πορφυρίωνα ἐν σκότῳ καταδυόμενον, ἵνα μή τισ αὐτὸν θεάσηται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 2:7)
  • δῆμοσ δέ ἐστιν Ἀθηναίοισ Ἀθμονέων, οἳ Πορφυρίωνα ἔτι πρότερον Ἀκταίου βασιλεύσαντα τῆσ Οὐρανίασ φασὶ τὸ παρὰ σφίσιν ἱερὸν ἱδρύσασθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 12:2)
  • πολέμων δ’ ἐν πέμπτῳ τῶν πρὸσ Ἀντίγονον καὶ Ἀδαῖον πορφυρίωνά φησι τὸν ὄρνιν διαιτώμενον κατὰ τὰσ οἰκίασ τὰσ ὑπάνδρουσ τῶν γυναικῶν τηρεῖν πικρῶσ καὶ τοιαύτην ἔχειν αἴσθησιν ἐπὶ τῆσ μοιχευομένησ, ὥσθ’ ὅταν τοῦθ’ ὑπονοήσῃ προσημαίνει τῷ δεσπότῃ, ἀγχόνῃ τὸ ζῆν περιγράψασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the water-hen

Related

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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