πόρνη
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A harlot, prostitute, Archil.142, Ar.Ach.527, etc. (Prob.from πέρνημι, because Greek prostitutes were commonly bought slaves.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 684] ἡ, Hure, feile Dirne, fem. von πόρνος; Archil. 26; Ar. Ach. 1056 Plut. 243 u. öfter; Ath. oft; ἄνθρωπος, Lys. 4, 9; Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
πόρνη: ἡ, ὡς καὶ νῦν, Ἀρχίλ. 131, Ἀριστοφ. Ἀχ. 527, κ. ἀλλ. (Πιθαν. ἐκ τοῦ περνάω, ἐπειδὴ αἱ παρ’ Ἕλλησι πόρναι συνήθως ἦσαν ὤνιαι δοῦλαι).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ης (ἡ) :
femme de mauvaise vie, prostituée.
Étymologie: πέρνημι.
English (Strong)
feminine of πόρνος; a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater: harlot, whore.
English (Thayer)
πόρνης, ἡ (from περάω, πέρνημι, to sell; Curtius, § 358), properly a woman who sells her body for sexual uses (cf. Xenophon, mem. 1,6, 13), the Sept. for זונָה;
1. properly, a prostitute, a harlot, one who yields herself to defilement for the sake of gain (Aristophanes, Demosthenes, others); in the N. T. universally, any woman indulging in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust: πορνεία, b. and πορνεύω, 3), metaphorically, an idolatress; so of 'Babylon' i. e. Rome, the chief seat of idolatry: Revelation 19:2.
