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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

  • σήμερον Ἀρχιλόχοιο καὶ ἄρσενοσ ἦμαρ Ὁμήρου σπένδομεν ὁ κρητὴρ οὐ δέχεθ’ ὑδροπότασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 20 1:1)
  • οὔ μοι Πληιάδων φοβερὴ δύσισ, οὐδὲ θαλάσσησ ὠρῦον στυφελῷ κῦμα περὶ σκοπέλῳ, οὐδ’ ὅταν ἀστράπτῃ μέγασ οὐρανόσ, ὡσ κακὸν ἄνδρα ταρβέω, καὶ μύθων μνήμονασ ὑδροπότασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 311)

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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