Strong G4208πορρωτέρω
farther
- Transliteration
- porrhōterō
- Pronunciation
- por-rho-ter'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb - Comparative
Definition
Adverb comparative of G4206; farther that is a greater distance: - further.
Detailed definition
farther
farther, onwards, beyond
farther, onwards, beyond
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: πρόσω,
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)], Trag. (but falsa lectio for{πρὸ ἕω} in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.103))]; poetry πρόσσω; also πόρσω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, Trag.)]; later Attic dialect πόρρω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus, Comedy texts, Oratt. (πρόσω)] should be restored in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 858.3 and πόρσω in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 482): 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus never uses the word.)] —Regul. _comparative_ and _superlative_ προσωτέρω, πορρωτέρω, προσωτάτω, πορρωτάτω, see at {προσωτέρω}: poetry comparative πόρσιον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.114)]: superlative πόρσιστα [Refs ([prev. author] “N.” 9.29)]. adverb: (πρό).
A absolutely:
I of Place, generally with a notion of motion, forwards, onwards, π. ἄγειν, φέρειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.388, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.542, etc.; [δοῦρα] ὄρμενα πρόσσω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.572)]; ἵπποι πρόσσω μεμαυῖαι[Refs ([prev. work] 615; πρόσω ἵεσθε 12.274, etc.; π. πᾶς πέτεται 16.265)]; π. κατέκυψε[Refs ([prev. work] 611; π. ἀΐξας 17.734)]; π. τετραμμένος αἰεί[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 598; νέμεσθαι π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.133)]; παραγγεῖλαι, πέμψαι π., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 294, 853)]; βῆναι, ἕρπειν π., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 195, 547)]; μὴ πόρσω φωνεῖν speak no further, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “El.” 213 (Lyric poetry); μηκέτι πάπταινε πόρσιον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.114: with _Article_, πορεύεσθαι αἰεὶ τὸ πρόσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.30, compare 9.57)]; also ἰέναι τοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.1; ἤϊε αἰεὶ ἐς τὸ π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.25.)]
II of Distance, far off, παπταίνειν τὰ πόρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.22; ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 65; ὡς ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων, πρόσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 15)]; πρόσω λεύσσειν to see at a distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 858.3; πόρρω ποι ἀπεσκοποῦμεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432e; ἐγγύς, οὐ πρόσω βεβηκώς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 596; ἡ δέ γ᾽ Εὔβοια.. παρατέταται μακρὰ πόρρω πάνυ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 212; εἴτ᾽ ἐγγύς, εἴτε πόρρω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356e; πόρρω που ἐκτὸς ὄντι [prev. author] “R.” 499c, etc.)]; πόρρω ποιεῖν τι leave at a distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 22.18, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.90 (uncertain); πάνυ π. γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.16)]; τὰ σκέλη κινεῖν ταχὺ καὶ π., of a runner, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361b24; οἱ πόρρω βάρβαροι [prev. author] “EN” 1149a11.)]
II.2 too far, καὶ νῦν ἴσως πόρρω ἀποτενοῦμεν [τὸν λόγον] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 458b; οὐ πόρρω ἐθελήσαιμ᾽ ἂν πιεῖν [prev. author] “Smp.” 176d.)]
II.3 in front, τὰ π. μέρη [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.680, compare 15.141, 18(2).265.)]
III of Time, forward, πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω, see at {ὀπίσω} 11; χρόνος.. ἰὼν πόρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).55)]; of continuance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 747)]; hereafter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.111)]; ἀναβάλλομαι ὡς πόρσιστα as late as possible, [Refs ([prev. author] “N.” 9.29)]; ἤδη πόρρω τῆς ἡμέρας οὔσης far spent, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.122)]; μέχρι πόρρω till late, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 581a26.)]
B with genitive:
B.I of Place, further into, π. τοῦ ποταμοῦ προβαίνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.28, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.2: especially _metaphorically_, προβήσεσθαι πόρρω μοχθηρίας)] will go far in wickedness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 30)]; π. ἀρετῆς ἀνήκειν to have reached a high point of virtue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.237; οὕτω πόρρω σοφίας ἥκεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 294e; πόρρω σοφίας ἐλαύνειν [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 4b, compare “Grg.” 486a, “Cra.” 410e, “Ly.” 204b)]; π. τέχνης a past master, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 192 (see. below 11); π. πάνυ ἐλάσαι τῆς πλεονεξίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.39)]: also with Article, προβήσομαι ἐς τὸ π. τοῦ λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5; ἐς τὸ π. οὐδὲν προεκόπτετο τῶν πρηγμάτων [prev. author] 3.56)]; ἐς τὸ π. μεγάθεος τιμῶνται are honoured to a high point of greatness, i.e. very greatly, [Refs ([prev. work] 154.)]
B.II of Distance, far from, οὐ π. τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.13; οὐ π. Σπάρτης πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 733; στάντες οὐ πόρρω τῶν βωμῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.22, etc.: _metaphorically_, π. δικαίων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 414)]; πόρρω τέχνης,= οὐκ ἀπὸ τέχνης, i. e. φύσει, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 192 (_accusative_ to Scholia, sed see above 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1); π. τοῦ χειρίσματος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11; οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φθέγγομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238d)]; πόρρω που τῶν ἐμαυτῷ πεπολιτευμένων far below them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.299; πόρρω εἶναι τοῦ οἴεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96e; πόρρω τῶν πραγμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.16; πόρρω τοῦ διαφθείρειν [prev. author] 15.240; πόρρω λίαν τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἀποπλανηθῆναι [prev. author] 7.77)]; π. σαρκός very far (i. e. different) from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 504b11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 581e: also followed by ἀπό, ἐξαναχωρέειν π. ἀπὸ τῶν φορτίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.196; πάνυ πόρρω ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.27; ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.49)]; also οὕτω πόρρω εἶ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου so far out in your notions of right, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343c.)]
B.III of Time, ὡς πρόσω ἦν τῆς νυκτός far into the night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. ; ὡς π. τῆς νυκτὸς προελήλατο [prev. author] 9.44; διαλέγεσθαι πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217d; λίαν π. ἔδοξε τῶν νυκτῶν εἶναι [prev. author] “Prt.” 310c; ἐκάθευδον μέχρι π. τῆς ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.19; βιότου πόρσω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 910 (Lyric poetry); π. ἤδη ἐστὶ τοῦ βίου, θανάτου δὲ ἐγγύς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 38c; ὀψὲ καὶ π. τῆς ἡλικίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 2.)]
B.III.2 οὐ π. ἑπτὰ ἡμερέων not longer than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.38.)]
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)], Trag. (but falsa lectio for{πρὸ ἕω} in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.103))]; poetry πρόσσω; also πόρσω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, Trag.)]; later Attic dialect πόρρω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus, Comedy texts, Oratt. (πρόσω)] should be restored in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 858.3 and πόρσω in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 482): 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus never uses the word.)] —Regul. _comparative_ and _superlative_ προσωτέρω, πορρωτέρω, προσωτάτω, πορρωτάτω, see at {προσωτέρω}: poetry comparative πόρσιον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.114)]: superlative πόρσιστα [Refs ([prev. author] “N.” 9.29)]. adverb: (πρό).
A absolutely:
I of Place, generally with a notion of motion, forwards, onwards, π. ἄγειν, φέρειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.388, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.542, etc.; [δοῦρα] ὄρμενα πρόσσω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.572)]; ἵπποι πρόσσω μεμαυῖαι[Refs ([prev. work] 615; πρόσω ἵεσθε 12.274, etc.; π. πᾶς πέτεται 16.265)]; π. κατέκυψε[Refs ([prev. work] 611; π. ἀΐξας 17.734)]; π. τετραμμένος αἰεί[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 598; νέμεσθαι π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.133)]; παραγγεῖλαι, πέμψαι π., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 294, 853)]; βῆναι, ἕρπειν π., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 195, 547)]; μὴ πόρσω φωνεῖν speak no further, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “El.” 213 (Lyric poetry); μηκέτι πάπταινε πόρσιον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.114: with _Article_, πορεύεσθαι αἰεὶ τὸ πρόσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.30, compare 9.57)]; also ἰέναι τοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.1; ἤϊε αἰεὶ ἐς τὸ π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.25.)]
II of Distance, far off, παπταίνειν τὰ πόρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.22; ἐγγὺς παρεστὼς καὶ πρόσω δ᾽ ἀποστατῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 65; ὡς ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων, πρόσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 15)]; πρόσω λεύσσειν to see at a distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 858.3; πόρρω ποι ἀπεσκοποῦμεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432e; ἐγγύς, οὐ πρόσω βεβηκώς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 596; ἡ δέ γ᾽ Εὔβοια.. παρατέταται μακρὰ πόρρω πάνυ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 212; εἴτ᾽ ἐγγύς, εἴτε πόρρω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356e; πόρρω που ἐκτὸς ὄντι [prev. author] “R.” 499c, etc.)]; πόρρω ποιεῖν τι leave at a distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 22.18, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.90 (uncertain); πάνυ π. γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.16)]; τὰ σκέλη κινεῖν ταχὺ καὶ π., of a runner, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361b24; οἱ πόρρω βάρβαροι [prev. author] “EN” 1149a11.)]
II.2 too far, καὶ νῦν ἴσως πόρρω ἀποτενοῦμεν [τὸν λόγον] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 458b; οὐ πόρρω ἐθελήσαιμ᾽ ἂν πιεῖν [prev. author] “Smp.” 176d.)]
II.3 in front, τὰ π. μέρη [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.680, compare 15.141, 18(2).265.)]
III of Time, forward, πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω, see at {ὀπίσω} 11; χρόνος.. ἰὼν πόρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).55)]; of continuance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 747)]; hereafter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.111)]; ἀναβάλλομαι ὡς πόρσιστα as late as possible, [Refs ([prev. author] “N.” 9.29)]; ἤδη πόρρω τῆς ἡμέρας οὔσης far spent, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.122)]; μέχρι πόρρω till late, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 581a26.)]
B with genitive:
B.I of Place, further into, π. τοῦ ποταμοῦ προβαίνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.28, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.2: especially _metaphorically_, προβήσεσθαι πόρρω μοχθηρίας)] will go far in wickedness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 30)]; π. ἀρετῆς ἀνήκειν to have reached a high point of virtue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.237; οὕτω πόρρω σοφίας ἥκεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 294e; πόρρω σοφίας ἐλαύνειν [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 4b, compare “Grg.” 486a, “Cra.” 410e, “Ly.” 204b)]; π. τέχνης a past master, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 192 (see. below 11); π. πάνυ ἐλάσαι τῆς πλεονεξίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.39)]: also with Article, προβήσομαι ἐς τὸ π. τοῦ λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5; ἐς τὸ π. οὐδὲν προεκόπτετο τῶν πρηγμάτων [prev. author] 3.56)]; ἐς τὸ π. μεγάθεος τιμῶνται are honoured to a high point of greatness, i.e. very greatly, [Refs ([prev. work] 154.)]
B.II of Distance, far from, οὐ π. τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.13; οὐ π. Σπάρτης πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 733; στάντες οὐ πόρρω τῶν βωμῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.22, etc.: _metaphorically_, π. δικαίων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 414)]; πόρρω τέχνης,= οὐκ ἀπὸ τέχνης, i. e. φύσει, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 192 (_accusative_ to Scholia, sed see above 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1); π. τοῦ χειρίσματος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11; οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φθέγγομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238d)]; πόρρω που τῶν ἐμαυτῷ πεπολιτευμένων far below them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.299; πόρρω εἶναι τοῦ οἴεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96e; πόρρω τῶν πραγμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.16; πόρρω τοῦ διαφθείρειν [prev. author] 15.240; πόρρω λίαν τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἀποπλανηθῆναι [prev. author] 7.77)]; π. σαρκός very far (i. e. different) from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 504b11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 581e: also followed by ἀπό, ἐξαναχωρέειν π. ἀπὸ τῶν φορτίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.196; πάνυ πόρρω ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.27; ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.49)]; also οὕτω πόρρω εἶ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου so far out in your notions of right, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343c.)]
B.III of Time, ὡς πρόσω ἦν τῆς νυκτός far into the night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. ; ὡς π. τῆς νυκτὸς προελήλατο [prev. author] 9.44; διαλέγεσθαι πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217d; λίαν π. ἔδοξε τῶν νυκτῶν εἶναι [prev. author] “Prt.” 310c; ἐκάθευδον μέχρι π. τῆς ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.19; βιότου πόρσω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 910 (Lyric poetry); π. ἤδη ἐστὶ τοῦ βίου, θανάτου δὲ ἐγγύς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 38c; ὀψὲ καὶ π. τῆς ἡλικίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 2.)]
B.III.2 οὐ π. ἑπτὰ ἡμερέων not longer than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.38.)]