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ἄποτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄποτος ἄποτη ἄποτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ποτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not drinkable
  2. never drinking, not drinking, without drink

Examples

  • τὰ γὰρ περὶ Βαίασ ἢ Βαίου λιμένα τῆσ Ἰταλίασ παντελῶσ ἄποτα σταθμήσασ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν Κορίνθῳ Πειρήνησ καλουμένησ ὕδωρ κουφότερον πάντων εὑρ͂ον τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, οὐ γὰρ Ἀντιφάνει τῷ κωμικῷ πεπίστευκα λέγοντι κατὰ πολλὰ τὴν ’ Ἀττικὴν διαφέρουσαν τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ὕδωρ κάλλιστον ἔχειν, φησὶ γάρ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 17 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. not drinkable

Related

Derived

  • ποτός (drunk, fit for drinking, that which one drinks)

Similar forms

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

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