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πορθμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορθμός πορθμοῦ

Structure: πορθμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pera/w

Sense

  1. a ferry or a place crossed by a ferry, a strait, firth
  2. a crossing by a ferry, passage, a passage to

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

  • εἰσ ἔμ’ Ἑλλὰσ ἡ μεγίστη πᾶσα νῦν ἀποβλέπει, κἀν ἐμοὶ πορθμόσ τε ναῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν κατασκαφαὶ τάσ τε μελλούσασ γυναῖκασ, ἤν τι δρῶσι βάρβαροι, μηκέθ’ ἁρπάζειν ἐᾶν τούσδ’ ὀλβίασ ἐξ Ἑλλάδοσ, τὸν Ἑλένησ τείσαντασ ὄλεθρον, ἣν <ἀν>ήρπασεν Πάρισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 1:5)
  • οὐ πᾶσι πορθμὸσ αὑτὸσ Ἀργείοισιν ἦν; (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:16)
  • τὸν δὲ λάτον τὸν κλεινὸν ἐν Ἰταλίῃ πολυδένδρῳ ὁ Σκυλλαῖοσ ἔχει πορθμόσ, θαυμαστὸν ἔδεσμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 88 1:1)
  • εἰσ τὸ παλάτιον Σοφιανῶν ὁππόθι τεμνομένησ χθονὸσ ἄνδιχα πόντον ἀνοίγει πλαγκτὸσ ἁλικλύστων πορθμὸσ ἐπ’ ἠιόνων, χρύσεα συλλέκτρῳ τάδ’ ἀνάκτορα θῆκεν ἀνάσσῃ τῇ πολυκυδίστῃ θεῖοσ ἄναξ Σοφίῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6571)
  • ἡ γλυκερὴ γὰρ ζώνη πορθμὸσ ἐήν χείλεοσ ἀμφοτέρου, Φράξεό μοι, Κλεόφαντισ, ὅση χάρισ, ὁππότε δοιοὺσ λάβρον ἐπαιγίζων ἶσοσ ἔρωσ κλονέει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 285 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a ferry or a place crossed by a ferry

  2. a crossing by a ferry

Related

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

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