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μετριοπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετριοπότης μετριοπότου

Structure: μετριοποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a moderate drinker

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

  • σὺ δὲ εἰπὲ εἴ τινα οἶσθα ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ γεγενημένον ἢ ἐξ εὐσεβοῦσ ἀνόσιον ἢ ἐκ σώφρονοσ ὑβριστὴν ἢ ἐξ εὐδιαίτου πολυδάπανον ἢ ὡσ ἐκ μετριοπότου οἰνόφλυγα ἢ ἐκ φιλοπόνου μαλακὸν ἢ ἄλλησ πονηρᾶσ ἡδονῆσ ἡττημένον. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. a moderate drinker

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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