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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

  • ὦ χεῖρεσ ἐμαὶ ἐγχειρεῖν χρῆν ἔργῳ πορίμῳ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode, lyric1)
  • τί δ’ οὐ σὺ φρονεῖσ ὁπόσα χρεών ἐστιν τόν γε σοφῇ δόκιμον φρενὶ πορίμῳ τε τόλμῃ; (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 18)
  • 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)
  • ἐν χειμῶνι δὲ μάλιστα μαθεῖν ἔστιν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀργούντων μέν, κωθωνιζομένων δέ, καὶ μάλιστ’ εἰ λεπτὸσ ὁ οἶνοσ εἰή καὶ πόριμοσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1723)
  • ἀπόλεμοσ ὅδε γ’ ὁ πόλεμοσ, ἄπορα πόριμοσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, epode4)
  • Ὁ δὲ λευκὸσ οἰνώδησ οἶνοσ ἐπῄνηται μὲν καὶ ἔψεκται τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ τὰ μέγιστα ἤδη ἐν τῇ τοῦ γλυκέοσ οἴνου διηγήσει‧ ἐσ δὲ κύστιν μᾶλλον πόριμοσ ἐὼν τοῦ ἑτέρου καὶ διουρητικὸσ καὶ καταῤῬηκτικὸσ, αἰεὶ πολλὰ προσωφελέοι ἂν ἐν ταύτῃσι τῇσι νούσοισι‧ καὶ γὰρ εἰ πρὸσ ἄλλα ἀνεπιτηδειότεροσ τοῦ ἑτέρου πέφυκεν, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ ἡ κατὰ κύστιν κάθαρσισ ὑπ’ αὐτέου γιγνομένη Ῥύεται, ἢν προτρέπηται ὁκοῖον δεῖ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.5)
  • κατὰ δὲ αὖ τὸν πατέρα ἐπίβουλόσ ἐστι τοῖσ καλοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ, ἀνδρεῖοσ ὢν καὶ ἴτησ καὶ σύντονοσ, θηρευτὴσ δεινόσ, ἀεί τινασ πλέκων μηχανάσ, καὶ φρονήσεωσ ἐπιθυμητὴσ καὶ πόριμοσ, φιλοσοφῶν διὰ παντὸσ τοῦ βίου, δεινὸσ γόησ καὶ φαρμακεὺσ καὶ σοφιστήσ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 328:1)

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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