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ποριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποριστής ποριστοῦ

Structure: ποριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pori/zw

Sense

  1. one who supplies or provides
  2. to raise extraordinary supplies, Procurators
  3. conveyancers

Declension

First 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 δὸσ τουτὶ Κλεοφῶντι φέρων καὶ τουτὶ τοῖσι πορισταῖσ Μύρμηκί θ’ ὁμοῦ καὶ Νικομάχῳ, τόδε δ’ Ἀρχενόμῳ· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Exodus, anapests3)

Synonyms

  1. to raise extraordinary supplies

Related

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

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