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πόρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόρος πόρου

Structure: πορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pera/w

Sense

  1. a means of passage, passage-way, way, opening
  2. especially passage over a body of water: ford, strait, ferry, bridge
  3. a means to an end
  4. (biology) fiber, filament, thread
  5. journey

Declension

Second 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

  • δεύτερον ἠγάγετο λιπαρὴν Θέμιν, ἣ τέκεν Ὥρασ, Εὐνουμίην τε Δίκην τε καὶ Εἰρήνην τεθαλυῖαν, αἳ ἔργ’ ὠρεύουσι καταθνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι, Μοίρασ θ’, ᾗ πλείστην τιμὴν πόρε μητίετα Ζεύσ, Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵτε διδοῦσι θνητοῖσ ἀνθρώποισιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 85:1)
  • "ἔστι δέ τισ Κλεόνικοσ, ὃν ἀθάνατον λάχε γῆρασ, οὔτε ποιητάων ἀδαήμων οὔτε θεάτρων, ᾧ καὶ τεθνειῶτι λαλεῖν πόρε Φερσεφόνεια` σὺ δὲ καὶ ζῶν, καλὲ Οὐλπιανέ, πάντα μὲν ζητεῖσ, λέγεισ δὲ οὐδὲ ἕν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 54 1:4)
  • καὶ Χλῶριν εἶδον περικαλλέα, τήν ποτε Νηλεὺσ γῆμεν ἑὸν μετὰ κάλλοσ, ἐπεὶ πόρε μυρία ἕδνα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1617)
  • τῷ δ’ ἡμετέρῳ χορῷ οἶνοσ φίλοσ ὃν πόρε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 67 4:1)
  • μοῖραν δ’ ἡδονῆσ κἀμοὶ πόρε. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode22)

Synonyms

  1. a means of passage

  2. a means to an end

  3. journey

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