πόρος

Related to πείρω (peírō, “to pierce, to run through”) or περάω (peráō, “to drive right through”), from πέρα (péra). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

πόρος • (póros) m (genitive πόρου); second declension

1. a means of passage, passageway, way, opening
2. especially passage over a body of water: ford, strait, ferry, bridge
3. a pore on the skin
4. a means to an end
5. resource
6. (biology) fiber, filament, thread
7. journey

• Greek: πόρος (póros)
• → Latin: porus (see there for further descendants)
• Tsakonian: πόρε (póre, “door”)
• English: porous

• “πόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πόρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πόρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πόρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• πόρος 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • avenue idem, page 55.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • contrivance idem, page 170.
  • device idem, page 220.
  • expedient idem, page 293.
  • ferry idem, page 316.
  • ford idem, page 336.
  • invention idem, page 456.
  • journey idem, page 464.
  • machinery idem, page 506.
  • means idem, page 520.
  • medium idem, page 522.
  • method idem, page 527.
  • passage idem, page 597.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • pilgrimage idem, page 613.
  • plan idem, page 617.
  • pore idem, page 627.
  • process idem, page 644.
  • resource idem, page 703.
  • revenue idem, page 709.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • scheme idem, page 739.
  • strait idem, page 822.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • vehicle idem, page 946.
  • voyage idem, page 958.
  • way idem, page 968.

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ɾos/

πόρος • (póros) m (plural πόροι)

1. (anatomy) pore, duct

   Ο ιδρώτας έτρεχε από κάθε πόρο του δέρματος μας.

   O idrótas étreche apó káthe póro tou dérmatos mas.

   Sweat ran from every pore of our skin.

2. (in the plural) resources, (financial) means

   φυσικοί πόροι ― fysikoí póroi ― natural resources

• πόροι (póroi, “public revenues”)