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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

  • πέμψω δὲ πορφυρίωνασ ἐσ τὸν οὐρανὸν ὄρνισ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν παρδαλᾶσ ἐνημμένουσ πλεῖν ἑξακοσίουσ τὸν ἀριθμόν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:20)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ Βαβυλωνία ταώνων ἐκτρέφει πλῆθοσ παντοίαισ χρόαισ ἐπηνθισμένων, αἱ δὲ τῆσ Συρίασ ἐσχατιαὶ ψιττακοὺσ καὶ πορφυρίωνασ καὶ μελεαγρίδασ καὶ ἄλλασ ζῴων ἰδίασ φύσεισ τοῖσ χρώμασι καὶ ποικίλασ συγκρίσεισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 53 2:1)

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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