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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

  • ὁδὶ δέ φησι Σωσίασ πρὸσ Δερκύλον εἶναι φιλοπότην αὐτόν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 2:13)
  • Βάτων δ’ ὁ Σινωπεὺσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Ιὤνοσ τοῦ ποιητοῦ φιλοπότην φησὶ γενέσθαι καὶ ἐρωτικώτατον τὸν Ιὤνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 48 2:3)
  • Ἑρμείασ δ’ ὁ Μηθυμναῖοσ ἐν τρίτῃ Σικελικῶν φιλοπότην φησὶ γενέσθαι Νικοτέλη τὸν Κορίνθιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 514)
  • καὶ φιλοχορευτὴν καὶ φιλοπότην καὶ ὀψοφάγον εἶναι καὶ πάντα δὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα μὴ ὡσ ἕνα ἄνδρα, ἀλλὰ μυρίουσ ἢ δὶσ μυρίουσ ἢ δεκάκισ, ἡλίκησ ἄν ποτε ἐραστὴσ ᾖ πόλεωσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 16:1)

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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