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πόσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόσις

Structure: ποσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: PO, Root of some tenses of pi/nw

Sense

  1. a drinking, drink, beverage
  2. a draught

Declension

Third 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

  • εἶτ’ ἀπὸ τοιούτων πόσεων γλώσσασ τε λύουσιν εἰσ αἰσχροὺσ μύθουσ σῶμά τ’ ἀμαυρότερον τεύχουσιν πρὸσ δ’ ὄμμ’ ἀχλὺσ ἀμαλωπὸσ ἐφίζει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 41 1:2)
  • πρὸσ οὓσ λεκτέον ὅτι τρόποι εἰσὶ πόσεων κατὰ πόλεισ ἴδιοι, ὡσ Κριτίασ παρίστησιν ἐν τῇ Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτείᾳ διὰ τούτων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 101)
  • τρόποι εἰσὶ πόσεων κατὰ πόλεισ ἴδιοι, ὡσ Κριτίασ παρίστησιν ἐν τῇ Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτείᾳ διὰ τούτων· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , ael. v.h. 10. 13.28)
  • εἶτ’ ἀπὸ τοιούτων πόσεων γλώσσασ τε λύουσιν εἰσ αἰσχροὺσ μύθουσ, σῶμά τ’ ἀμαυρότερον τεύχουσιν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other12)
  • Οὐκοῦν εἰ μήτε διὰ δόξαν μήτε διὰ χρήματα μήτε δἰ ἡδονὰσ βρώσεων ἢ πόσεων ἢ μίξεων αὑτὸν ἢ ἄλλον οἰέται μακάριον μηδὲ ὅλωσ εἶναί τι τῶν τοιούτων περιμάχητον ἢ τίμιον, οὐκ ἂν διαφέροιτο περὶ αὐτῶν οὐδ̓ ἂν φθονήσειεν οὐδενὶ ἐκείνων, οὐ μᾶλλον ἢ τῆσ ψάμμου τῆσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ αἰγιαλοῖσ ἢ τῶν κυμάτων τοῦ ψόφου τε καὶ ἤχου τοῖσ πρὸσ τῇ θαλάττῃ οἰκοῦσιν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 53:3)

Synonyms

  1. a draught

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

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