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αἱματοπώτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: haimatopōtēs

Principal Part: αἱματοπώτης

Structure: αἱματοπωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: πίνω

Sense

  1. a blood-drinker

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ ὁπόταν μάρψῃ βυρσαίετος ἀγκυλοχήλης γαμφηλῇσι δράκοντα κοάλεμον αἱματοπώτην, δὴ τότε Παφλαγόνων μὲν ἀπόλλυται ἡ σκοροδάλμη, κοιλιοπώλῃσιν δὲ θεὸς μέγα κῦδος ὀπάζει, αἴ κεν μὴ πωλεῖν ἀλλᾶντας μᾶλλον ἕλωνται. (Aristotle, Prologue 5:18)
  • εἶθ αἱματοπώτης ἔσθ ὅ τ ἀλλᾶς χὠ δράκων: (Aristotle, Prologue 5:27)
  • Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Ἱππεῦσιν γαμφηλαῖσι δράκοντα κοάλεμον αἱματοπώτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a blood-drinker

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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