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πόριμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόριμος πόριμον

Structure: ποριμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/ros

Sense

  1. able to provide, full of resources, inventive, contriving, making possible
  2. practicable
  3. well-provided

Declension

First/Second 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 γάρ τοι πάντα μὲν τὰ ἀπορώτατα οἱ ποιηταὶ ταύτῃ προστιθέασιν, ἐπειδὰν πόριμα καὶ δυνατὰ ἀποφῆναι βούλωνται, Ὀδυσσέασ τε νηχομένουσ ἐν μέσοισ τοῖσ ἐρήμοισ πελάγεσι καὶ νέουσ ἐκ γερόντων καὶ καλοὺσ ἐξ οὐ καλῶν γιγνομένουσ, καὶ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν μνηστῆρασ ἀπολλύντασ ἀπὸ φαύλου καὶ γελοίου τοῦ ἐπικουρικοῦ μειρακίου καὶ νομέοιν δυοῖν, καὶ ἕτερα τούτων ἀτοπώτερα. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:20)

Synonyms

  1. practicable

  2. well-provided

Related

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

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