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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Diminutive of ποτήρ (potḗr, “cup”), from πίνω (pínō, “I drink”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /poˈti.ri.on/ → /poˈti.ri.on/
Noun
ποτήρῐον • (potḗrion) n (genitive ποτηρῐ́ου); second declension
- cup
- the cup of the Eucharist
- jar
- receptacle for offerings in a temple
- absorbent preparation
- goat's thorn (Astragalus spp., eg, Astragalus poterium, Astragalus tragacanthus)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ποτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ποτήριον 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
- G4221 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.