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πορθμεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορθμεύς πορθμέως

Structure: πορθμευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a ferryman
  2. a boatman, seaman

Declension

Third 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

  • ἔμβαινε, ἵνα καὶ ἀνιμήσηται ὁ πορθμεὺσ τὸ ἀγκύριον. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 17:4)
  • Καὶ μὴν ἐγὼ μὲν ἡ ἀκράτωσ λευκὴ ὅμωσ ἐραστὴν ἔχω κἂν τοῦτον, ὑμῶν δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν ἥντινα ἢ ποιμὴν ἢ ναύτησ ἢ πορθμεὺσ ἐπαινεῖ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and galataea, chapter 3 1:2)
  • ἀλλ̓ ἐπεὶ καταπεπλεύκαμεν ἡμεῖσ, ὑμεῖσ μὲν ἄπιτε πρὸσ τὸ δικαστήριον εὐθεῖαν ἐκείνην προϊόντεσ, ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ ὁ πορθμεὺσ ἄλλουσ μετελευσόμεθα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 25:3)
  • φησὶ γοῦν ὁ πορθμεὺσ μὴ διαρκέσαι αὐτοῖσ τότε τὸ σκάφοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 12:2)
  • τούτῳ οὖν κατὰ τύχην προσέσχε πορθμεὺσ Ἰθακήσιοσ ὀνόματι Πυρρίασ, καὶ τὸν πρεσβύτην ἐρρύσατο μηδενὸσ δεόμενοσ, ἀλλὰ πεισθεὶσ ὑπ’ ἀὐτοῦ καὶ οἰκτίρασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 34 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a boatman

Related

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

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