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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

  • συνάγω δὲ καὶ ποτικοὺσ εἰσ ταὐτὸ καὶ ἐρωτικούσ, οὐ μόνον ὅσοισ ἔρωτοσ δῆγμα παιδικῶν πρόσεστιν ὥσ φησι Σοφοκλῆσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ παρθένοισ δακνομένουσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 29:12)

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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