πόσις
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.sis/
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
- πόσσις (póssis) — poetic
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πόσῐς ho pósis |
τὼ πόσει tṑ pósei |
οἱ πόσεις hoi póseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πόσῐος toû pósios |
τοῖν ποσέοιν toîn poséoin |
τῶν πόσεων tôn póseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πόσει tôi pósei |
τοῖν ποσέοιν toîn poséoin |
τοῖς πόσεσῐ / πόσεσῐν toîs pósesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πόσῐν tòn pósin |
τὼ πόσει tṑ pósei |
τοὺς πόσῐᾰς toùs pósias | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πόσῐ / πόσῐς pósi / pósis |
πόσει pósei |
πόσεις póseis | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- ἀριστόποσις (aristóposis)
- μελλόποσις (mellóposis)
- πρωτόποσις (prōtóposis)
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
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πόσῐς hē pósis |
τὼ πόσει tṑ pósei |
αἱ πόσεις hai póseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πόσῐος / πόσεως tês pósios / póseōs |
τοῖν ποσέοιν toîn poséoin |
τῶν πόσεων tôn póseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πόσει / πόσῑ têi pósei / pósī |
τοῖν ποσέοιν toîn poséoin |
ταῖς πόσεσῐ / πόσεσῐν taîs pósesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πόσῐν tḕn pósin |
τὼ πόσει tṑ pósei |
τᾱ̀ς πόσεις tā̀s póseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πόσῐ pósi |
πόσει pósei |
πόσεις póseis | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- ἀνάποσις (anáposis)
- ἐγκατάποσις (enkatáposis)
- κατάποσις (katáposis)
- πρόποσις (próposis)
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.
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “πόσις”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 167
- Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi
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