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πότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πότιμος πότιμον

Structure: ποτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/tos

Sense

  1. drinkable, fresh
  2. fresh, sweet, pleasant, mild, gentle

Declension

First/Second 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

  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ οἱ λίμναισ παρήκουσαν ἢ ποταμοὺσ ὑποδεχομένην νεμόμενοι θάλατταν ἰχθύεσ, ὅταν μέλλωσι τίκτειν, ἀνατρέχουσι, τῶν ποτίμων ὑδάτων τὴν πραότητα καὶ τὸ ἄσαλον διώκοντεσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 322)
  • θήκην δὲ ὑπὸ γῆσ αὐτοῖσ εἰργασμένην εἶναι ψαλίδα προμήκη λίθων ποτίμων καὶ ἀγήρων εἰσ δύναμιν, ἔχουσαν κλίνασ παρ’ ἀλλήλασ λιθίνασ κειμένασ, οὗ δὴ τὸν μακάριον γεγονότα θέντεσ, κύκλῳ χώσαντεσ, πέριξ δένδρων ἄλσοσ περιφυτεύσουσι πλὴν κώλου ἑνόσ, ὅπωσ ἂν αὔξην ὁ τάφοσ ἔχῃ ταύτην τὴν εἰσ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐπιδεῆ χώματοσ τοῖσ τιθεμένοισ· (Plato, Laws, book 12 43:2)
  • τὴν δὲ σελήνην ἐκ ποτίμων ὑδάτων, ἀερομιγῆ τυγχάνουσαν καὶ πρόσγειον οὖσαν, ὡσ ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ ἐν τῷ ἕκτῳ τοῦ Φυσικοῦ λόγου· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 145:3)
  • περὶ δὲ τὴν ἀγοράν σφισιν αἱ πηγαὶ τῶν ποτίμων εἰσὶν ὑδάτων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 11:2)
  • τὸ δὲ τῆσ ἀπολιθώσεωσ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐν Λαοδικείᾳ ποταμῶν φασι συμβαίνειν καίπερ ὄντων ποτίμων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 24:11)

Synonyms

  1. drinkable

  2. fresh

Related

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

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