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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

  • διὸ καὶ οἰκεῖὸν ἐστ’ αὐτοῖσ ἡ φιλοποσία καὶ τὰ ἐρωτικὰ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ περὶ τὴν δίαιταν ἄνεσισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 19 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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