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ὑδροπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδροπότης ὑδροπότου

Structure: ὑδροποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a water-drinker, a thin-blooded, mean-spirited fellow

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑδροπότης ὑδροπότᾱ ὑδροπόται
Genitive ὑδροπότου ὑδροπόταιν ὑδροποτῶν
Dative ὑδροπότῃ ὑδροπόταιν ὑδροπόταις
Accusative ὑδροπότην ὑδροπότᾱ ὑδροπότᾱς
Vocative ὑδροπότα ὑδροπότᾱ ὑδροπόται

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

  • ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τοῦ μετὰ δεῖπνον ἀφαιρεῖν χρή, ἔστ’ ἂν λάθωμεν ὑδροπόται γενόμενοι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 38:1)
  • ἅπαντεσ δ’ οἱ ὄρειοι λιτοὶ ὑδροπόται χαμαιεῦναι βαθεῖαν κατακεχυμένοι τὴν κόμην γυναικῶν δίκην· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 14:1)

Similar forms

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

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