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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

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

  • κἀδεστὰ καὶ ποτῆτα καὶ κοιμήματα πρὸσ σπαργάνοισ μένουσα λικνῖτιν τροφὴν ἐξευθετίζω νύκτα καὶ καθ’ ἡμέραν. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 22:3)
  • καὶ οἱ διψαλέῳ στυγερὴν ὤρεξε ποτῆτα λαὸσ Ιοὐδαίων ἀθεμίστιοσ, αἱματοχάρμησ, ὄξεϊ κιρνάμενοσ πικρὸν δέπασ, εἶδαρ ὀλέθρου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 28 1:2)
  • αὐτὸν γὰρ οἶμαι τὸν Ἰξίονα λῆρον ἀποφαίνετε τὸν ἐν τῷ τροχῷ παρὰ τοῖσ ποιηταῖσ ἐνδεδεμένον φέρε οὖν, εἰ μεταξὺ θεῶν τισ ὑμῖν ἐπιστὰσ εἴποι διατεινάμενοσ, δαιμόνιοι, μαίνεσθε καὶ οὐκέτι κεύθετε θυμῷ βρωτὺν οὐδὲ ποτῆτα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 99:1)
  • " τοῖσι δὲ καὶ μετέειφ’ ἱερὴ ἲσ Τηλεμάχοιο "δαιμόνιοι, μαίνεσθε καὶ οὐκέτι κεύθετε θυμῷ βρωτὺν οὐδὲ ποτῆτα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 65:4)
  • τῇ μὲν τ’ οὐδὲ ποτητὰ, παρέρχεται οὐδὲ Πέλειαι τρήρωνεσ, ταὶ τ’ ἀμβροσίην Διὶ πατρὶ φέρουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 79 3:2)
  • διόπερ ἀπὸ τῶν πτηνῶν αὐτὰσ χωρίζει λέγων τῇ μὲν τ’ οὐδὲ ποτητὰ παρέρχεται οὐδὲ Πέλειαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 79 3:4)
  • τῇ μὲν τ’ οὐδὲ ποτητὰ παρέρχεται οὐδὲ πέλειαι τρήρωνεσ ταὶ τ’ ἀμβροσίην Διὶ πατρὶ φέρουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 82 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking

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

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