πορθμός

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”), the same root of πείρω (peírō, “to pierce”), πόρος (póros, “means of passage”), Latin portus (“harbour, port”) and Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”).

πορθμός • (porthmós) m (genitive πορθμοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ πορθμός; τοῦ πορθμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πορθμός ho porthmós	τὼ πορθμώ tṑ porthmṓ	οἱ πορθμοί hoi porthmoí
Genitive	τοῦ πορθμοῦ toû porthmoû	τοῖν πορθμοῖν toîn porthmoîn	τῶν πορθμῶν tôn porthmôn
Dative	τῷ πορθμῷ tōî porthmōî	τοῖν πορθμοῖν toîn porthmoîn	τοῖς πορθμοῖς toîs porthmoîs
Accusative	τὸν πορθμόν tòn porthmón	τὼ πορθμώ tṑ porthmṓ	τοὺς πορθμούς toùs porthmoús
Vocative	πορθμέ porthmé	πορθμώ porthmṓ	πορθμοί porthmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“πορθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πορθμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πορθμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

πορθμός • (porthmós) m (plural πορθμοί)