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

 

• IPA^(key): /pór.tis/ → /ˈpor.tis/ → /ˈpor.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pór.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tis/

Noun

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

1. (poetic) a calf, young heifer (younger than δαμάλη (damálē) says Eustathius)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.162
   1. a young maiden
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 102

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

• 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • calf idem, page 108.
  • heifer idem, page 394.