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ποτής

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτής ποτῆτος

Structure: ποτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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

Sense

  1. a drinking, drink

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποτής ποτῆτε ποτῆτες
Genitive ποτῆτος ποτήτοιν ποτήτων
Dative ποτῆτι ποτήτοιν ποτῆσιν*
Accusative ποτῆτα ποτῆτε ποτῆτας
Vocative ποτή ποτῆτε ποτῆτες

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

  • ἢ τίνε[σ]φοι λειἙλληντῶν πεπαρὰ πο[τῆσ] Φρυγῶν κ[ρατησάσησ στρα]τείασ ἐγ[κωμιασθήσεται; (Hyperides, Speeches, <[E)pita/fios]> 33:2)
  • ἀρχαιῶν ἦν ὅδ’ ἀνὴρ προγόνων, εἰδὼσ ἐκ νεότητοσ ἀεὶ ξείνοισιν ὁμιλεῖν ξεῖνοσ, Μιμνέρμου δ’ εἰσ ἔποσ ἄκρον ἰὼν παιδομανεῖ Τῄῳ τε πότησ ἴσοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , prop. i. 9. 926)
  • εἰσ Διόνυσον γεγλυμμένον ἐν ἀμεθύστῳ ἡ λίθοσ ἔστ’ ἀμέθυστοσ, ἐγὼ δ’ ὁ πότησ Διόνυσοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7481)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking

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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