Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

φιλοπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοπότης φιλοπότου

Structure: φιλοποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lover of drinking, fond of wine

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

  • "Καλχηδόνιοι δὲ πρὶν μὲν μετασχεῖν αὐτοῖσ τῆσ πολιτείασ ἅπαντεσ ἐν ἐπιτηδεύμασι καὶ βίῳ βελτίονι διετέλουν ὄντεσ, ἐπεὶ δὲ τῆσ δημοκρατίασ τῶν Βυζαντίων ἐγεύσαντο, διεφθάρησαν εἰσ τρυφήν, καὶ τὸν καθ’ ἡμέραν βίον ἐκ σωφρονεστάτων καὶ μετριωτάτων φιλοπόται καὶ πολυτελεῖσ γενόμενοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:104)
  • ταῦτα δὲ χρὴ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι ὡσ κάλλιστα καὶ τῶν ὑδάτων πέρι ὡσ ἔχουσι, καὶ πότερον ἑλώδεσι χρέονται καὶ μαλθακοῖσιν ἢ σκληροῖσί τε καὶ ἐκ μετεώρων καὶ πετρωδέων εἴτε ἁλυκοῖσι καὶ ἀτεράμνοισιν‧ καὶ τὴν γῆν, πότερον ψιλή τε καὶ ἄνυδροσ ἢ δασεῖα καὶ ἔφυδροσ καὶ εἴτε ἔγκοιλόσ ἐστι καὶ πνιγηρὴ εἴτε μετέωροσ καὶ ψυχρή‧ καὶ τὴν δίαιταν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁκοίῃ ἥδονται, πότερον φιλοπόται καὶ ἀριστηταὶ καὶ ἀταλαίπωροι ἢ φιλογυμνασταί τε καὶ φιλόπονοι καὶ ἐδωδοὶ καὶ ἄποτοι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , i.5)

Synonyms

  1. a lover 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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