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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

  • διὸ καὶ Δίων ὁ ἐξ Ἀκαδημίασ φιλοίνουσ καὶ φιλοπότασ τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίουσ γενέσθαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 61 1:1)
  • φιλοπότασ δὲ καὶ μεθύσουσ καταλέγει Θεόπομποσ Διονύσιον τὸν νεώτερον, Σικελίασ τύραννον, ὃν καὶ τὰσ ὄψεισ ὑπὸ τοῦ οἴνου διαφθαρῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 47 1:1)
  • Ἁρμόδιοσ δὲ ὁ Λεπρεάτησ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν παρὰ Φιγαλεῦσι νομίμων φιλοπότασ φησὶ γενέσθαι Φιγαλεῖσ Μεσσηνίοισ ἀστυγείτονασ ὄντασ καὶ ἀποδημεῖν ἐθισθέντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 59 1:3)

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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