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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

  • γεωργίᾳ δὲ προσεῖχε νέοσ μὲν ὢν ἔτι καὶ διὰ τὴν χρείαν φησὶ γὰρ δυσὶ κεχρῆσθαι μόνοισ πορισμοῖσ γεωργίᾳ καὶ φειδοῖ, τότε δὲ διαγωγὴν καὶ θεωρίαν αὐτῷ τὰ γινόμενα κατ’ ἀγρὸν παρεῖχε, καὶ συντέτακταί γε βιβλίον γεωργικόν, ἐν ᾧ καὶ περὶ πλακούντων σκευασίασ καὶ τηρήσεωσ ὀπώρασ γέγραφεν, ἐν παντὶ φιλοτιμούμενοσ περιττὸσ εἶναι καὶ ἴδιοσ. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 25 1:2)

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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