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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

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 ἀπέστειλεν αὐτῷ πόρπην χρυσῆν, ὡσ ἔθοσ ἐστὶ δίδοσθαι τοῖσ συγγενέσι τῶν βασιλέων, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ τὴν Ἀκκαρὼν καὶ πάντα τὰ ὅρια αὐτῆσ εἰσ κληροδοσίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:89)
  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτῷ χρυσώματα καὶ διακονίαν καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ἐξουσίαν πίνειν ἐν χρυσώμασι καὶ εἶναι ἐν πορφύρᾳ καὶ ἔχειν πόρπην χρυσῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:58)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἐξέσται οὐδενὶ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τῶν ἱερέων ἀθετῆσαί τι τούτων καὶ ἀντειπεῖν τοῖσ ὑπ̓ αὐτοῦ ρηθησομένοισ καὶ ἐπισυστρέψαι συστροφὴν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἄνευ αὐτοῦ καὶ περιβάλλεσθαι πορφύραν καὶ ἐμπορποῦσθαι πόρπην χρυσῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:44)
  • ὡσ καὶ αὐλητρὶσ ἧκεν ἐκ τῆσ πλησίον κώμησ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ὡσ δῶρα ἀλλήλοισ ἀντέδοσαν, ὁ Μαῦροσ μὲν τῷ Μαλχίωνι λόγχην, ὁ δὲ τῷ Μαυσάκᾳ πόρπην, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ τοιαῦτα τῆσ ἐπ̓ Εὐρώπῳ μάχησ αὐτὰ δὴ τὰ κεφάλαια. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 28 2:1)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δ’ ἀκούσασ ἡττημένον τὸν αὐτοῦ στρατηγὸν Ἀπολλώνιον προσεποιεῖτο χαίρειν, ὅτι παρὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ γνώμην Ιὠνάθῃ συνέβαλεν φίλῳ ὄντι καὶ συμμάχῳ, καὶ πέμπει πρὸσ Ιὠνάθην μαρτυρῶν αὐτῷ καὶ γέρα καὶ τιμὰσ διδοὺσ πόρπην χρυσέαν, ὡσ ἔστιν ἔθοσ δίδοσθαι τοῖσ τῶν βασιλέων συγγενέσιν, καὶ τὴν Ἀκκάρωνα καὶ τὴν τοπαρχίαν αὐτῆσ εἰσ κληρουχίαν ἐπιτρέπει. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 124:1)

Synonyms

  1. a buckle-pin

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

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