πόσις

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Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hellenic *pótis, from Proto-Indo-European *pótis. Cognates include Albanian pata,[1][2] Latin potis and Sanskrit पति (pati).

Alternative forms

Noun

πόσις (pósism (genitive πόσιος); third declension

  1. husband
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

πόσις (pósisf (genitive πόσιος or πόσεως); third declension

  1. the act of drinking
  2. drink, beverage
Inflection
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Further reading

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “πόσις”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 167
  2. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi