πίνω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πώνω (pṓnō) — Doric, Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-. Cognates include Sanskrit पिबति (pibati), Latin pōtō and bibō, and Albanian pi.

The present tense system includes a N progressive aspect marker.

Pronunciation

Verb

πῑ́νω • (pī́nō)

1. to drink
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1289
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.172
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.825
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.346
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.232
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.469
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.226
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.220
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.96
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.112
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.391
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.225
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.62
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.11
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.86
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 467c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 417a
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 622
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 959
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.4
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.4
   1. (absolute)
      • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 20
      • 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 124
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 536
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.493
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.476
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.305
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.94
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.249
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 775b
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 117c
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 176e
      • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 14
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.9
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.41
   2. (figuratively)
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 979
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 736
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.117
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.198
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Downward Journey 27
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1401
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 2.25
2. to carouse
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Gym. 54

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Greek: πίνω (píno)
• ⇒ Mariupol Greek: пнэшку (pnešku)

Further reading

• “πίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πίνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πίνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πίνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πίνω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4095 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πῑ́νω (pī́nō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.no/
• Hyphenation: πί‧νω

Verb

πίνω • (píno) (past ήπια, passive πίνομαι)

1. to drink (water, coffee, beers, etc)
2. to toast (drink to someone's health)
3. to drink (to be a drinker of alcoholic drinks)
4. (colloquial) to smoke tobacco, use drugs

Conjugation

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