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ποτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτήρ ποτῆρος

Structure: ποτηρ (Stem)

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

Sense

  1. a drinking-cup, wine-cup

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποτήρ ποτῆρε ποτῆρες
Genitive ποτῆρος ποτήροιν ποτήρων
Dative ποτῆρι ποτήροιν ποτῆρσιν*
Accusative ποτῆρα ποτῆρε ποτῆρας
Vocative ποτήρ ποτῆρε ποτῆρες

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

  • τὰ ποτήρι’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 17 1:3)
  • ποτήρι’ ἡ γραῦσ, ἄλλο δ’ οὐδὲ ἓν βλέπει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 32 1:4)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ κεραμεύουσι νῦν τοὺσ κανθάρουσ, ὦ τάλαν, ἐκείνουσ τοὺσ ἁδρούσ, ταπεινὰ δὲ καὶ γλαφυρὰ πάντεσ ὡσπερεὶ αὐτὰ τὰ ποτήρι’, οὐ τὸν οἶνον πιόμενοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 47 3:2)
  • πορφυρᾶ , τορεύματα ἔνδον ἔστ’, ἄνδρεσ, ποτήρἰ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 68 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking-cup

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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