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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 ὁ μὲν διονυσοκόλακασ, αὐτοὶ δ’ αὑτοὺσ τεχνίτασ καλοῦσιν ταῦτα δ’ ἄμφω μεταφορά, ἡ μὲν ῥυπαινόντων ἡ δὲ τοὐναντίον, καὶ οἱ μὲν λῃσταὶ αὑτοὺσ ποριστὰσ καλοῦσι νῦν διὸ ἔξεστι λέγειν τὸν ἀδικήσαντα μὲν ἁμαρτάνειν, τὸν δ’ ἁμαρτάνοντα ἀδικῆσαι, καὶ τὸν κλέψαντα καὶ λαβεῖν καὶ πορίσασθαι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 10:4)
  • μάλιστα μὲν γὰρ καὶ τῆσ νενομισμένησ ταυτησὶ τροφῆσ καὶ κοινῆσ ὑμᾶσ εὐθὺσ ἂν εὑρ́οι τισ ἐπωνύμουσ καὶ ποριστὰσ σκοπῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:3)

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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