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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

  • Ἄμφισ δ’ ἐν Φιλαδέλφοισ ἐπαινῶν τὸν τῶν φιλοποτῶν φησι βίον κατὰ πόλλ’ ἐπαινῶ μᾶλλον ἡμῶν τὸν βίον τὸν τῶν φιλοποτῶν ἤπερ ὑμῶν τῶν μόνον ἐν τῷ μετώπῳ νοῦν ἔχειν εἰωθότων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 68 2:3)

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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