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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

  • καὶ ἐφοβήθη μήποτε οὐκ ἐάσῃ αὐτὸν Ἰωνάθαν καὶ μήποτε πολεμήσῃ πρὸσ αὐτόν, καὶ ἐζήτει πόρον τοῦ συλλαβεῖν τὸν Ἰωνάθαν τοῦ ἀπολέσαι αὐτόν, καὶ ἀπάρασ ἦλθεν εἰσ Βαιθσάν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 12:40)
  • καὶ Κικόνων πτολίεθρα καὶ Αἰολίδοσ πόρον Ἕλλησ Δαρδανίησ λιμένεσσιν ὁ νυμφίοσ ἤγαγε νύμφην. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1200)
  • μὴ μικρὸν οἰηθῇσ, ὦ ἑταῖρε, μηδ’ ὀλίγον γεγενῆσθαι τὸν πόρον τοῦτον, ἀλλ’ εἰσ ἑπτὰ ἢ ὀκτὼ μυριάδασ ἑκάστου ἔτουσ ἤθροιζεν, ἀνὰ δέκα καὶ πεντεκαίδεκα χρησμοὺσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπὸ ἀπληστίασ ἀναδιδόντων . (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 23:2)
  • κἀγὼ μὲν ᾤμην ἁπλοῦν τι τοῦτο εἶναι καὶ δεξιὸν ἐπεὶ δὲ κατὰ μέσον τὸν πόρον ἐγενόμην, δακρύοντα ὁρῶν τὸν κυβερνήτην καὶ τοῖσ ναύταισ τι ἀντιλέγοντα οὐκ ἀγαθὰσ εἶχον περὶ τῶν μελλόντων ἐλπίδασ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 56:2)
  • ὅσα δέ τινεσ τῶν πρότερον πεπράγασιν εἰσ πόρον χρημάτων ἢ τεχνικῶσ τι διῴκησαν, ἃ ὑπελαμβάνομεν ἀξιόλογα αὐτῶν εἶναι, συναγηόχαμεν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 17:2)
  • ελὼ δὲ τ[ φιλ]λάκατοσ, ]δ’ ἐπ’ εὐναῆ [πόρον ]α· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a means of passage

  2. a means to an end

  3. journey

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