πόρτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pértis, from *per- (“to give birth”). Cognates include Sanskrit पृथुक (pṛthuka, “boy; the young of any animal”), Old Armenian որդի (ordi, “child”), and Latin partus (“birth; offspring”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pór.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tis/
Noun
πόρτῐς • (pórtis) f (genitive πόρτῐος); third declension
- (poetic) a calf, young heifer (younger than δαμάλη (damálē) says Eustathius)
- Homer, Iliad 5.162
- a young maiden
- Lycophron, Collected Works 102
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πόρτῐς; τῆς πόρτῐος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πόρτῐς hē pórtis | τὼ πόρτῐε tṑ pórtie | αἱ πόρτῐες hai pórties | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πόρτῐος tês pórtios | τοῖν πορτῐ́οιν toîn portíoin | τῶν πορτῐ́ων tôn portíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πόρτῑ têi pórtī | τοῖν πορτῐ́οιν toîn portíoin | ταῖς πόρτῐσῐ / πόρτῐσῐν taîs pórtisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πόρτῐν tḕn pórtin | τὼ πόρτῐε tṑ pórtie | τᾱ̀ς πόρτῑς / πόρτῐᾰς tā̀s pórtīs / pórtias | ||||||||||
Vocative | πόρτῐ pórti | πόρτῐε pórtie | πόρτῐες pórties | ||||||||||
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See also
- πόρις (póris)
- Latin: iuvencus
Further reading
- “πόρτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πόρτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πόρτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πόρτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πόρτις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- calf idem, page 108.
- heifer idem, page 394.