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
Third declension of ἡ πόρτῐς; τῆς πόρτῐος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
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
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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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