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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

  • ῥεῖα δέ κεν πλεόνεσσι πόροι Ζεὺσ ἄσπετον ὄλβον. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 44:3)
  • χρημάτων δ’ εἰσὶν πόροι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:40)
  • οἱ γὰρ πόροι διὰ λεπτότητα τὸ γεῶδεσ καὶ παχυμερὲσ οὐ διηθοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 5 8:1)
  • σκόπει δὴ μὴ τὴν θάλατταν γεώδη καὶ ἀνώμαλον οὖσαν ἐξωθεῖ καὶ διαστέλλει τῇ πυκνότητι τοὔλαιον, εἶτ’ ἀνατρεχούσησ εἰσ αὑτὴν καὶ συστελλομένησ ἀπολείπονται πόροι μεταξὺ ταῖσ ὄψεσι διαύγειαν καὶ καταφάνειαν διδόντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 12 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ καὶ αἱ κύστεισ ἑκάτεραι ἥ τε τὸ οὖρον ὑποδεχομένη καὶ ἡ τὴν ξανθὴν χολὴν οὐ μόνον τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀλλήλων διαφέρουσι καὶ οἱ εἰσ τὸ ἧπαρ ἀποφυόμενοι πόροι, καθάπερ στόμαχοί τινεσ ἀπὸ τῆσ χοληδόχου κύστεωσ, οὐδὲν οὔτ’ ἀρτηρίαισ οὔτε φλεψὶν οὔτε νεύροισ ἐοίκασιν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 621)

Synonyms

  1. a means of passage

  2. a means to an end

  3. journey

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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