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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ- + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.tʰɛ̌ː/ → /poˈθi/ → /poˈθi/
Noun
ποθή • (pothḗ) f (genitive ποθῆς); first declension
- longing, desire
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ποθή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ποθή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ποθή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ποθή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press