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φέροντος (pherontos)

φέροντος is an Ancient Greek form of φέρω, meaning “to carry, bring, bear”. It is the present active participle genitive singular neuter.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.1: … ς οἰκουμέναις ἥρπαζον καὶ τὸν πλεῖστον τοῦ βίου ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιοῦντο, οὐκ ἔχοντός πω αἰσχύνην τούτου τοῦ ἔργου, φέροντος δέ τι καὶ δόξης μᾶλλον·

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.21.4: … ὅλας ἔνειμεν. οὐ μέντοι καὶ ἁπλῶς ἐμεγαλοφρονεῖτο, ἀλλὰ τά τε ἄλλα διηκριβοῦτο, καὶ τοῦ πλήθους τοῦ τὸν σῖτον φεροντος ἐπὶ μακρότατον, οὐ κατὰ δίκην ἀλλʼ ὥς που ἐν ταῖς στάσεσιν εἴωθε γίγνεσθαι, ἐπαυξηθέντος ἐξέτασιν ἐποιήσατο, …

All forms of φέρω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.