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ποτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτικός ποτική ποτικόν

Structure: ποτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/tos

Sense

  1. fond of drinking, given to drinking

Examples

  • ὠνόμασε δὲ ποτικὸν Ἀλκαῖοσ Γανυμήδει οὕτωσ ὅτι δὲ τὸ μεθύειν καὶ τὰσ ὄψεισ ἡμῶν πλανᾷ σαφῶσ ἔδειξεν Ἀνάχαρσισ δι’ ὧν εἴρηκε, δηλώσασ ὅτι ψευδεῖσ δόξαι τοῖσ μεθύουσι γίγνονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 64 3:2)
  • Ἀλέξανδρον δὲ ἡ θερμότησ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, καὶ ποτικὸν καὶ θυμοειδῆ παρεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 4 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of drinking

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

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