πορθμ-ός · porthm-os — LSJ
ferry, place crossed by a ferry, strait, narrow sea, straits
The corpus record
πορθμ-ός
porthmos · ὁ
ferry, place crossed by a ferry, strait, narrow sea, straits
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Distribution
- Third Philippic 3 · 7.05/10k
- Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
- De Respiratione 2 · 3.29/10k
- Fourth Philippic 1 · 2.26/10k
- Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- πορθμῷ · porthmōi Odyssey 4.671
- πορθμῷ · porthmōi Odyssey 15.29
- πορθμὸν · porthmon Herodotus, Histories 8.76.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8866)
- πορθμῷ · porthmōi Herodotus, Histories 8.91.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8957)
- πορθμὸν · porthmon Aeschylus, Persians 65–72
- πορθμόν · porthmon Aeschylus, Persians 722
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