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ποτάμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτάμιος ποτάμιᾱ ποτάμιον

Structure: ποταμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: potamo/s

Sense

  1. of or from a river

Examples

  • τοιαῦτ’ ἀλύων ταῖσ ὑπερκόμποισ σαγαῖσ βοᾷ παρ’ ὄχθαισ ποταμίαισ, μάχησ ἐρῶν, ἵπποσ χαλινῶν ὣσ κατασθμαίνων μένει, ὅστισ βοὴν σάλπιγγοσ ὁρμαίνει μένων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode12)
  • καλοῦσι δ’ αὐτὴν καὶ τὴν κάτω χώραν σὺν ταῖσ ἀπαντικρὺ ποταμίαισ τοῦ Δέλτα· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 8:11)

Synonyms

  1. of or from a river

Related

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

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