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πόριμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: porimos

Principal Part: πόριμος πόριμον

Structure: ποριμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πόρος

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

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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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