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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”), though the exact derivation is unclear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pó.tos/ → /ˈpo.tos/ → /ˈpo.tos/
Noun
πότος • (pótos) m (genitive πότου); second declension
- an instance of drinking: a draught, a drink
- drinking-bout, carousal
430 BCE – 354 BCE,
Xenophon,
Anabasis 7.3.26:
- ἐπειδὴ δὲ προυχώρει ὁ πότος, εἰσῆλθεν ἀνὴρ Θρᾷξ ἵππον ἔχων λευκόν.
- epeidḕ dè proukhṓrei ho pótos, eisêlthen anḕr Thrâix híppon ékhōn leukón.
- When the drinking-bout was well under way, there entered a Thracian man with a white horse.
Declension
Further reading
- “πότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πότος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “πότος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011