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πορθμίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορθμίς πορθμίδος

Structure: πορθμιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = porqmei=on II

Sense

  1. a ship, boat

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὔτε πνεῦμα Διόθεν ἦλθε πώποτε, οὐ πορθμίσ, ἥτισ διὰ πέτρασ Συμπληγάδασ Ἑλένην ἀπήγαγ’ ἐνθάδ’, ἥ μ’ ἀπώλεσεν, Μενέλεών θ’, ἵν’ αὐτοὺσ ἀντετιμωρησάμην, τὴν ἐνθάδ’ Αὖλιν ἀντιθεῖσα τῆσ ἐκεῖ, οὗ μ’ ὥστε μόσχον Δαναί̈δαι χειρούμενοι ἔσφαζον, ἱερεὺσ δ’ ἦν ὁ γεννήσασ πατήρ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:4)
  • οὐ δύ’ ἀποπνίξασ1’ ἑταίρουσ τὸν τρίτον θηρεύεται ἔτι λαβεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐξέπαισε πορθμὶσ ἐλατίνῳ πλάτῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ship

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

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