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ποριστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποριστικός ποριστική ποριστικόν

Structure: ποριστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pori/zw

Sense

  1. able to furnish

Examples

  • ἀρετὴ δ’ ἐστὶ μὲν δύναμισ ὡσ δοκεῖ ποριστικὴ ἀγαθῶν καὶ φυλακτική, καὶ δύναμισ εὐεργετικὴ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων, καὶ πάντων περὶ πάντα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 9 4:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ παρασκευαστικὸν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρή, καὶ ποριστικὸν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων τοῖσ στρατιώταισ, καὶ μηχανικὸν καὶ ἐργαστικὸν καὶ ἐπιμελῆ καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ ἀγχίνουν, καὶ φιλόφρονά τε καὶ ὠμόν, καὶ ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον, καὶ φυλακτικόν τε καὶ κλέπτην, καὶ προετικὸν καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ φιλόδωρον καὶ πλεονέκτην καὶ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἐπιθετικόν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ φύσει καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δεῖ τὸν εὖ στρατηγήσοντα ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 7:2)
  • ἦν γὰρ χρημάτων ποριστικόσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 252:2)

Synonyms

  1. able to furnish

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

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