Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλοποσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοποσία

Structure: φιλοποσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filopo/ths

Sense

  1. love of drinking

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

  • "τοιούτουσ δ’ εἶχεν ἀεὶ περὶ αὑτὸν ἀνθρώπουσ ὁ Μακεδών, οἷσ διὰ φιλοποσίαν καὶ βωμολοχίαν πλείω χρόνον ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ συνδιέτριβε καὶ συνήδρευε περὶ τῶν μεγίστων βουλευόμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 762)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν φιλοποσίαν ὁ Νέστωρ καὶ παρἈχιλλέωσ φιάλην λαμβάνει δῶρον ἐν τῷ ἐπὶ Πατρόκλῳ ἐπιτελουμένῳ ἀγῶνι, οὐχ ὅτι ἀκονιτὶ τῷ νικηθέντι ἔδωκε δέπασ ὁ Ἀχιλλεύσ τοῖσ γὰρ φιλοπόταισ οὐ παρέπεται τὸ νικᾶν διὰ τὸ ῥᾴθυμον ἢ ὅτι διὰ δίψαν μάλιστα λείπονται οἱ πύκται διὰ τὸ βαρεῖσθαι τὰσ χεῖρασ ἀνατείνοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 42 2:1)
  • ὁρῶ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ εἰσ φιλοποσίαν προαχθέντασ καὶ τοὺσ εἰσ ἔρωτασ ἐγκυλισθέντασ ἧττον δυναμένουσ τῶν τε δεόντων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ τῶν μὴ δεόντων ἀπέχεσθαι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of drinking

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION