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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποριστής ποριστᾱ́ πορισταί
Genitive ποριστοῦ πορισταῖν ποριστῶν
Dative ποριστῇ πορισταῖν πορισταῖς
Accusative ποριστήν ποριστᾱ́ ποριστᾱ́ς
Vocative ποριστά ποριστᾱ́ πορισταί

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 τὸ μὲν πλῆθοσ κατὰ συγγένειαν ὡσ ἕκαστοι τῆσ εὐωχίασ μετελάμβανον, Αἀρὼν δὲ σὺν τοῖσ παροῦσι Ῥαγουῆλον προσλαβόμενοσ ὕμνουσ τε ᾖδον εἰσ τὸν θεὸν ὡσ τῆσ σωτηρίασ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ αἴτιον καὶ ποριστὴν γεγενημένον, καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν εὐφήμουν ὡσ κατὰ ἀρετὴν ἐκείνου πάντων αὐτοῖσ κατὰ νοῦν ἀπηντηκότων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 80:1)
  • τὰ γὰρ εἰσ οὓσ ἐδαπάνα πολλὰ γενόμενα κακῶν ποριστὴν ἐξ ὧν ἐλάμβανεν ἐποίει. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 179:2)
  • εἰργόμενοσ δὲ χρημάτων ἀπορίᾳ ἠξίου Μαρσύαν ὄντα αὐτοῦ ἀπελεύθερον ποριστὴν γενέσθαι τῶν ἐπὶ τοιούτοισ μηχανῶν δανεισάμενον παρά τινοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 190:2)

Synonyms

  1. to raise extraordinary supplies

Related

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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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