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ὑδροποσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδροποσία

Structure: ὑδροποσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from u(dropo/ths

Sense

  1. water-drinking

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ δύο καὶ τρία ποτήρια, τήν τε δύναμιν τοῦ οἴνου ποιοῦντα μαλακωτέραν καὶ τοῦ σώματοσ συνήθη τὴν ὑδροποσίαν, ὅπωσ, ὅταν ἐν χρείᾳ γένηται, μὴ ξενοπαθῇ μηδ’ ἀπαναίνηται. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 4:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ νυκτὶ μὲν δήπου ὅσαπερ οἱ ἄλλοι ἡμέρᾳ δύναισθ’ ἂν χρῆσθαι, πόνουσ δὲ τοῦ ζῆν ἡδέωσ ἡγεμόνασ νομίζετε, λιμῷ δὲ ὅσαπερ ὄψῳ διαχρῆσθε, ὑδροποσίαν δὲ ῥᾷον τῶν λεόντων φέρετε, κάλλιστον δὲ πάντων καὶ πολεμικώτατον κτῆμα εἰσ τὰσ ψυχὰσ συγκεκόμισθε· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 15:1)
  • ὅσον μὲν οὖν τινα χρόνον διήνεγκα τὴν ὑδροποσίαν, οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἔχω λέγειν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:9)

Synonyms

  1. water-drinking

Related

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

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