πότος

See also: ποτός

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.tos/

Noun

πότος • (pótos) m (genitive πότου); second declension

1. an instance of drinking: a draught, a drink
   1. 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

Second declension of ὁ πότος; τοῦ πότου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πότος ho pótos	οἱ πότοι hoi pótoi
Genitive	τοῦ πότου toû pótou	τῶν πότων tôn pótōn
Dative	τῷ πότῳ tôi pótōi	τοῖς πότοις toîs pótois
Accusative	τὸν πότον tòn póton	τοὺς πότους toùs pótous
Vocative	πότε póte	πότοι pótoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bout idem, page 91.
  • carousal idem, page 114.
  • drinking bout idem, page 253.
• “πότος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011