Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πόσσις ‎(póssis) (Poetic)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pósis/

Noun

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

1. husband

Inflection

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

From πίνω ‎(pínō, “I drink”).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pósis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pósis/

Noun

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

1. the act of drinking
2. drink, beverage

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀνάποσις ‎(anáposis)
• ἐγκατάποσις ‎(enkatáposis)
• κατάποσις ‎(katáposis)
• πρόποσις ‎(próposis)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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 252.
  • husband idem, page 411.
  • potation idem, page 629.
  • spouse idem, page 805.