πόρτις

Ancient Greek

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”).

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

(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

Third declension of ἡ πόρτῐς; τῆς πόρτῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πόρτῐς hē pórtĭs	τὼ πόρτῐε tṑ pórtĭe	αἱ πόρτῐες hai pórtĭes
Genitive	τῆς πόρτῐος tês pórtĭos	τοῖν πορτῐ́οιν toîn portĭ́oin	τῶν πορτῐ́ων tôn portĭ́ōn
Dative	τῇ πόρτῑ tēî pórtī	τοῖν πορτῐ́οιν toîn portĭ́oin	ταῖς πόρτῐσῐ / πόρτῐσῐν taîs pórtĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πόρτῐν tḕn pórtĭn	τὼ πόρτῐε tṑ pórtĭe	τᾱ̀ς πόρτῑς / πόρτῐᾰς tā̀s pórtīs / pórtĭăs
Vocative	πόρτῐ pórtĭ	πόρτῐε pórtĭe	πόρτῐες pórtĭes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.