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πορισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορισμός πορισμοῦ

Structure: πορισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pori/zw

Sense

  1. a providing, procuring, a means of getting, means of gain

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πορισμός πορισμώ πορισμοί
Genitive πορισμοῦ πορισμοῖν πορισμῶν
Dative πορισμῷ πορισμοῖν πορισμοῖς
Accusative πορισμόν πορισμώ πορισμούς
Vocative πορισμέ πορισμώ πορισμοί

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

  • περὶ δὲ πορισμοῦ καὶ ἐργασίασ καὶ χειρῶν ἐπιτυχίασ τὸ ἀδρανέστατον ταῖσ χερσὶν εὐδράνειαν αἰτεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:19)
  • ἁπτόμενοσ δὲ συντονώτερον πορισμοῦ τὴν μὲν γεωργίαν μᾶλλον ἡγεῖτο διαγωγὴν ἢ πρόσοδον, εἰσ δ’ ἀσφαλῆ πράγματα καὶ βέβαια κατατιθέμενοσ τὰσ ἀφορμάσ ἐκτᾶτο λίμνασ, ὕδατα θερμά, τόπουσ κναφεῦσιν ἀνειμένουσ, ἔργα πίσσια, χώραν ἔχουσαν αὐτοφυεῖσ νομὰσ καὶ ὕλασ, ἀφ’ ὧν αὐτῷ χρήματα προσῄει πολλὰ μηδ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ Διόσ, ὥσ φησὶν αὐτόσ, βλαβῆναι δυναμένων. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 21 5:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ Περὶ βίου καὶ πορισμοῦ προνοεῖν λέγων ὅπωσ ποριστέον τῷ σοφῷ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. z'. XRGSIPPOS 10:6)
  • καταγέλαστοι δὲ καὶ οἱ τρόποι τοῦ πορισμοῦ, οἱο͂ν οἱ ἀπὸ βασιλέωσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. z'. XRGSIPPOS 11:5)

Synonyms

  1. a providing

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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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