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

 

Noun

πόρτῐς • (pórtis) f (genitive πόρτῐος); third declension

  1. (poetic) a calf, young heifer (younger than δαμάλη (damálē) says Eustathius)
    1. a young maiden

Inflection

See also

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.
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