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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πόσις πόσει πόσεις
Genitive πόσεως πόσοιν πόσεων
Dative πόσει πόσοιν πόσεσιν*
Accusative πόσιν πόσει πόσεις
Vocative πόσι πόσει πόσεις

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ὁ οἶνοσ ταῦτα οὐδὲ ὁ Διόνυσοσ ποιεῖ, τὸ δὲ ἄμετρον τῆσ πόσεωσ καὶ τὸ πέρα τοῦ καλῶσ ἔχοντοσ ἐμφορεῖσθαι τοῦ ἀκράτου. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:3)
  • "ὁ δὲ ἄρχεται τῆσ πόσεωσ ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δέκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4817)
  • καὶ Ἑρμῆσ δ’ εἶδοσ πόσεωσ παρὰ Στράττιδι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 58 2:4)
  • "βοηθοῦνται δ’ ἀπὸ ὑδρομέλιτοσ πόσεωσ καὶ ὀξυμέλιτοσ, νίτρου καὶ ὄξουσ, μετὰ τὴν πόσιν δὲ ἐμεῖν δεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5297)
  • Ἐπίνικοσ γοῦν, Μνησιπτολέμου ἀνάγνωσιν ποιησαμένου τῶν ἱστοριῶν ἐν αἷσ ἐγέγραπτο ὡσ Σέλευκοσ ἐπηλφίτωσε, γράψασ δρᾶμα Μνησιπτόλεμον καὶ κωμῳδῶν αὐτὸν καὶ περὶ τῆσ πόσεωσ ταῖσ ἐκείνου χρώμενοσ φωναῖσ ἐποίησε λέγοντα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 39 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a draught

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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