Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "αἱ δὲ πολυθρύλητοι συμμετρίαι καὶ ἁρμονίαι τῶν περὶ τὰ αἰσθητήρια πόρων αἵ τε πολυμιξίαι τῶν σπερμάτων, ἃ δὴ πᾶσι χυμοῖσ καὶ ὀσμαῖσ καὶ χρόαισ ἐνδιεσπαρμένα λέγουσιν ἑτέραν ἑτέρῳ ποιότητοσ κινεῖν αἴσθησιν, οὐκ ἄντικρυσ εἰσ τὸ μὴ μᾶλλον τὰ πράγματα συνελαύνουσιν αὐτοῖσ; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 51)
  • Νικίασ δ’ ὁ Νικηράτου, ὡσ ὁ καλὸσ ἔφη Ξενοφῶν ἐν τῷ περὶ πόρων, χιλίουσ ἔχων οἰκέτασ ἐμίσθωσεν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὰ ἀργυρεῖα Σωσίᾳ τῷ Θρᾳκὶ ἐφ’ ᾧ ὀβολὸν ἑκάστου, τελεῖν τῆσ ἡμέρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 101 1:20)
  • "φησὶ τοίνυν τῶν μὲν ἄλλων ὑγρῶν ἐπιόντα διέχειν ἀδήλωσ καὶ διασπείρεσθαι τὸν ἰόν, ἀνωμάλων τῶν πόρων καὶ μανῶν ὄντων· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 3 4:3)
  • καὶ πολὺν ἔχουσαι σφυγμὸν καὶ οἶστρον ἐν ταῖσ ἀπολαύσεσι λαμβάνουσιν αὐτούσ, διατάσεισ δὲ καὶ πληγαὶ πόρων καὶ πνευμάτων ἐναπολήψεισ διαδέχονται, μὴ περιμένουσαι τὰσ κατὰ φύσιν ἐξαγωγάσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπιπολάζουσαι τοῖσ σώμασιν ὥσπερ ὑπεράντλοισ σκάφεσι, φορτίων ἐκβολῆσ οὐ περιττωμάτων δεομένοισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 5:1)
  • "ταύταισ οὖν ἐστι τῶν μὲν πόρων οἰκειότατοσ ὁ διὰ τῆσ οὐρήσεωσ, τῶν δὲ καθάρσεων ἡ διὰ τῶν κωθωνισμῶν πρέπει μάλιστα, κατανίζεται γὰρ τὸ σῶμα τοῖσ οἴνοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 675)

Synonyms

  1. a means of passage

  2. a means to an end

  3. journey

Related

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION