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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

  • οὐκοῦν μόνοσ οὗτοσ ἐξ ἁπάντων ἄποτοσ ἔστω. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 28:11)
  • ὡσ ἔγωγε ἡδέωσ ἂν ἄσιτόσ σοι καὶ ἄποτοσ παρακαθεζόμενοσ, εἰσ ὅσον ἂν αὐτὸσ διαρκοίησ λέγων, κεχηνὼσ ἐπακούοιμι περὶ πολιτείασ τε καὶ νόμων διεξιόντοσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:6)
  • ἄσιτοσ ὤν, ὦ τάν, καὶ ἄποτοσ; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 17:4)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐσ τὸν οἶνον ἔτι ἀναφέρειν εἶχον τὰ γινόμενα λογιζόμενοσ οἱᾶ ὁ Ἑτοιμοκλῆσ ἄσιτοσ ἔτι καὶ ἄποτοσ ἐγεγράφει. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 34:4)
  • ἄποτοσ ὦ Γλύκη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 36 1:2)

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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