πόρνος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

See πόρνη (pórnē).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

πόρνος • (pórnos) m (genitive πόρνου); second declension

male prostitute

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πόρνος; τοῦ πόρνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πόρνος ho pórnos	τὼ πόρνω tṑ pórnō	οἱ πόρνοι hoi pórnoi
Genitive	τοῦ πόρνου toû pórnou	τοῖν πόρνοιν toîn pórnoin	τῶν πόρνων tôn pórnōn
Dative	τῷ πόρνῳ tôi pórnōi	τοῖν πόρνοιν toîn pórnoin	τοῖς πόρνοις toîs pórnois
Accusative	τὸν πόρνον tòn pórnon	τὼ πόρνω tṑ pórnō	τοὺς πόρνους toùs pórnous
Vocative	πόρνε pórne	πόρνω pórnō	πόρνοι pórnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: πόρνος (pórnos)
→⇒ Old Armenian: պոռնիկ (poṙnik)

Further reading

“πόρνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πόρνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G4205 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
πόρνος 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόρνος (pórnos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾnos/
Hyphenation: πόρ‧νος

Noun

πόρνος • (pórnos) m (plural πόρνοι)

rent boy, gigolo (male prostitute)
whoremaster (man who uses the services of prostitutes)

Declension

Declension of **πόρνος**
	singular	plural
nominative	πόρνος (pórnos)	πόρνοι (pórnoi)
genitive	πόρνου (pórnou)	πόρνων (pórnon)
accusative	πόρνο (pórno)	πόρνους (pórnous)
vocative	πόρνε (pórne)	πόρνοι (pórnoi)

Synonyms

(rent boy, gigolo): ζιγκολό m (zigkoló)
(whoremaster): πουτανιάρης m (poutaniáris)

Related terms

see: πόρνη f (pórni, “prostitute”)

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