πόσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.sis/ → /ˈpo.sis/ → /ˈpo.sis/

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• πόσσις (póssis) — poetic

Noun

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

1. husband

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πόσῐς; τοῦ πόσῐος (Attic)

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:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• δεσπότης (despótēs)
• δέσποινᾰ (déspoina)
• πότνια (pótnia)

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

2. the act of drinking
3. drink, beverage

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πόσῐς; τῆς πόσῐος (Attic)

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:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beverage idem, page 77.
  • consort idem, page 164.
  • draught idem, page 250.
  • drink idem, page 252.
  • drinking idem, page 253.
  • husband idem, page 411.
  • potation idem, page 629.
  • spouse idem, page 805.