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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

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 ἡρ́ωσιν ὄρνισι καὶ ἡρώων παισί, πορφυρίωνι καὶ πελεκᾶντι καὶ πελεκίνῳ καὶ φλέξιδι καὶ τέτρακι καὶ ταὧνι καὶ ἐλεᾷ καὶ βασκᾷ καὶ ἐλασᾷ καὶ ἐρωδιῷ καὶ καταρράκτῃ καὶ μελαγκορύφῳ καὶ αἰγιθάλλῳ ‐ παῦ’ ἐσ κόρακασ, παῦσαι καλῶν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:11)
  • "’ πορφυρίωνι καὶ πελεκᾶντι καὶ πελεκίνῳ καὶ φλέξιδι καὶ τέτρακι καὶ ταὧνι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 58 1:3)
  • ἦν δὲ τὸ μὲν μέγεθοσ ὑπὲρ ἀλεκτρυόνα τὸν μέγιστον, τὸ δὲ εἶδοσ πορφυρίωνι παραπλήσιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 58 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. the water-hen

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

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