Greek

Proper noun

Πόρος • ‎(Póros) m

1. Poros, a Greek island of the east coast of the Peloponnese.

Declension

Ancient Greek

Noun

πόρος • ‎(póros) m ‎(genitive πόρου); second declension

1. a means of passage, passage-way, way, opening
2. especially passage over a body of water: ford, strait, ferry, bridge
3. a means to an end
4. (biology) fiber, filament, thread
5. journey

Inflection

References

• πόρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πόρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πόρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πόρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πόρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «πόρος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • avenue idem, page 55.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • contrivance idem, page 170.
  • device idem, page 220.
  • expedient idem, page 293.
  • ferry idem, page 316.
  • ford idem, page 336.
  • invention idem, page 456.
  • journey idem, page 464.
  • machinery idem, page 506.
  • means idem, page 519.
  • medium idem, page 522.
  • method idem, page 527.
  • passage idem, page 597.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • pilgrimage idem, page 613.
  • plan idem, page 617.
  • pore idem, page 627.
  • process idem, page 644.
  • resource idem, page 703.
  • revenue idem, page 709.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • scheme idem, page 739.
  • strait idem, page 822.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • vehicle idem, page 946.
  • voyage idem, page 958.
  • way idem, page 968.
• LSJ (entry: πόρος)

Greek

Noun

πόρος • ‎(póros) m ‎(plural πόροι)

1. (anatomy) pore, duct

   Ο ιδρώτας έτρεχε από κάθε πόρο του δέρματος μας.‎ ― O idrótas étreche apó káthe póro tou dérmatos mas. ― Sweat ran from every pore of our skin.

2. (plural) resources, (financial) means

   φυσικοί πόροι‎ ― fysikoí póroi ― natural resources

Declension

Derived terms

• πόροι ‎(póroi, “public revenues”)