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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

  • μισῶ πολίτην, ὅστισ ὠφελεῖν πάτραν βραδὺσ πέφυκε μεγάλα δὲ βλάπτειν ταχύσ, καὶ πόριμον αὑτῷ τῇ πόλει δ’ ἀμήχανον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 2:16)
  • ταῦτ’ οὐ δοκεῖ σοι σαφῶσ ὁ ποιητὴσ ἑαυτὸν ἐπαινῶν λέγειν ὡσ γόνιμον καὶ πόριμον εἰσ τὰ μέλη; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:20)

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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