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πόρπη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόρπη

Structure: πορπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pei/rw

Sense

  1. a buckle-pin, a buckle or brooch

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πόρπη πόρπᾱ πόρπαι
Genitive πόρπης πόρπαιν πορπῶν
Dative πόρπῃ πόρπαιν πόρπαις
Accusative πόρπην πόρπᾱ πόρπᾱς
Vocative πόρπη πόρπᾱ πόρπαι

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

  • ἐμῶν γὰρ ὀμμάτων, πόρπασ λαβοῦσαι, τὰσ ταλαιπώρουσ κόρασ κεντοῦσιν, αἱμάσσουσιν· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:11)
  • ὁ γὰρ ἀὴρ ἐγκεκραμένοσ οὐκ ἐᾷ σκληρὰν γενέσθαι τὴν πῆξιν βελόνασ δὲ καὶ πόρπασ σιδηρᾶσ καὶ τὰ λεπτὰ τῶν ἔργων οὐχ ὕδατι βάπτουσιν ἀλλ’ ἐλαίῳ, τὴν ἄγαν ψυχρότητα φοβούμενοι τοῦ · (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 13 10:1)
  • οἳ δ’ ἐπεὶ οὖν λεχέων εὐποιήτων ἐπέβησαν, κόσμον μέν οἱ πρῶτον ἀπὸ χροὸσ εἷλε φαεινόν, πόρπασ τε γναμπτάσ θ’ ἕλικασ κάλυκάσ τε καὶ ὁρ́μουσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:4)
  • τῇσι παρ’ εἰνάετεσ χάλκευον δαίδαλα πολλά, πόρπασ τε γναμπτάσ θ’ ἕλικασ κάλυκάσ τε καὶ ὁρ́μουσ ἐν σπῆϊ γλαφυρῷ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 37:10)

Synonyms

  1. a buckle-pin

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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