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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

  • φιλοποσίασ μεμελετηκότασ καὶ μὴ διευλαβουμένουσ εἰσ τὰ τῶν ὄνων γένη καὶ τῶν τοιούτων θηρίων εἰκὸσ ἐνδύεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 23 3:1)
  • οἱο͂ν τοὺσ μὲν γαστριμαργίασ τε καὶ ὕβρεισ καὶ φιλοποσίασ μεμελετηκότασ καὶ μὴ διηυλαβημένουσ εἰσ τὰ τῶν ὄνων γένη καὶ τῶν τοιούτων θηρίων εἰκὸσ ἐνδύεσθαι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 461:1)
  • ἆρα πρῶτον μὲν ζητητέον, ὅστισ ἄρχει γαστρόσ τε καὶ φιλοποσίασ καὶ λαγνείασ καὶ ὕπνου καὶ ἀργίασ; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 6 2:3)

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.

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