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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

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 ἀνελεύθερον ἐκ τῶν ἐπιπόνων ὥσπερ οἱ ναῦται πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ ἀπολαύσεισ ὕβρει φερόμενον καὶ μετὰ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ πάλιν ἐπ’ ἐργασίασ καὶ πορισμοὺσ ὠθούμενον οὐκ ἐᾷ λαβεῖν τὴν φύσιν ἧσ μάλιστα δεῖται καταστάσεωσ καὶ γαλήνησ, ἀλλ’ ἐξίστησι καὶ ταράττει διὰ τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 25 6:1)
  • κοινωνίασ καὶ ἀνδρείασ καὶ τοῦ πανούργου περὶ τοὺσ πορισμοὺσ καὶ τὰσ οἰκονομίασ, ὥσπερ αὖ καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων, ἀδικίασ δειλίασ ἀβελτερίασ, ἔνεστιν αὐτοῖσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 4 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. a providing

Related

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

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