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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

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

  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑδροποτῶν καὶ μεριμνῶν τὰσ νύκτασ, ὥσ φασιν, ὁ δὲ πορνοβοσκῶν καὶ μεθυσκόμενοσ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἑκάστην προγάστωρ ἡμῖν ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἀνακαλεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:1)
  • οὐκοῦν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, καὶ διαζῇ τὸ καθ’ ἡμέραν οὕτω χαριζόμενοσ τῇ προσπιπτούσῃ ἐπιθυμίᾳ, τοτὲ μὲν μεθύων καὶ καταυλούμενοσ, αὖθισ δὲ ὑδροποτῶν καὶ κατισχναινόμενοσ, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ γυμναζόμενοσ, ἔστιν δ’ ὅτε ἀργῶν καὶ πάντων ἀμελῶν, τοτὲ δ’ ὡσ ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ διατρίβων. (Plato, Republic, book 8 390:1)

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

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