πόσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hellenic *pótis, from Proto-Indo-European *pótis. Cognates include Albanian pata, Latin potis and Sanskrit पति (pati).

Alternative forms

• πόσσις (póssis) — poetic

Noun

πόσις • (pósis) m (genitive πόσιος); third declension

1. husband

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀριστόποσις (aristóposis)
• μελλόποσις (mellóposis)
• πρωτόποσις (prōtóposis)

Related terms

• δεσπότης (despótēs)
• δέσποινᾰ (déspoina)
• πότνια (pótnia)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hellenic *pótis, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₃tis, from *peh₃- (“to drink”) (compare πίνω (pínō, “I drink”)).

Noun

πόσις • (pósis) f (genitive πόσιος or πόσεως); third declension

2. the act of drinking
3. drink, beverage

Inflection

Derived terms

Further reading

• “πόσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πόσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πόσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πόσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πόσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4213 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.
  • beverage idem, page 77.
  • consort idem, page 164.
  • draught idem, page 250.
  • drink idem, page 252.
  • drinking idem, page 253.
  • husband idem, page 411.
  • potation idem, page 629.
  • spouse idem, page 805.

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