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πόρκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόρκος πόρκου

Structure: πορκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a type of fishing net
  2. transliteration of Latin porcus

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πόρκος πόρκω πόρκοι
Genitive πόρκου πόρκοιν πόρκων
Dative πόρκῳ πόρκοιν πόρκοις
Accusative πόρκον πόρκω πόρκους
Vocative πόρκε πόρκω πόρκοι

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

  • κάπρασ μὲν τὰσ αἶγασ, πόρκουσ δὲ τοὺσ χοίρουσ ὀνομάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 11 4:4)
  • "οἱ δ’ Ὀδυσσέωσ ἑταῖροι, τοσαύτην πλέοντεσ θάλατταν, οὐδαμοῦ καθῆκαν ἄγκιστρον οὐδὲ πόρκον οὐδὲ δίκτυον, ἀλφίτων παρόντων· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:17)
  • κύρτουσ δὴ καὶ δίκτυα καὶ βρόχουσ καὶ πόρκουσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μῶν ἄλλο τι πλὴν ἑρ́κη χρὴ προσαγορεύειν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 27:3)

Synonyms

  1. a type of fishing net

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