ποτήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Diminutive of ποτήρ (potḗr, “cup”), from πίνω (pínō, “I drink”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /poˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /poˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /poˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /poˈti.ri.on/
Noun
ποτήρῐον • (potḗrion) n (genitive ποτηρῐ́ου); second declension
- cup
- the cup of the Eucharist
- jar
- receptacle for offerings in a temple
- absorbent preparation
- goat's thorn (Astragalus spp., eg, Astragalus poterium, Astragalus tragacanthus)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ποτήρῐον; τοῦ ποτηρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ποτήρῐον tò potḗrion | τὼ ποτηρῐ́ω tṑ potēríō | τᾰ̀ ποτήρῐᾰ tà potḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ποτηρῐ́ου toû potēríou | τοῖν ποτηρῐ́οιν toîn potēríoin | τῶν ποτηρῐ́ων tôn potēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ποτηρῐ́ῳ tôi potēríōi | τοῖν ποτηρῐ́οιν toîn potēríoin | τοῖς ποτηρῐ́οις toîs potēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ποτήρῐον tò potḗrion | τὼ ποτηρῐ́ω tṑ potēríō | τᾰ̀ ποτήρῐᾰ tà potḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | ποτήρῐον potḗrion | ποτηρῐ́ω potēríō | ποτήρῐᾰ potḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek:
- Modern Greek: ποτήρι (potíri)
- Tsakonian: ποκήρι (pokíri)
Further reading
- “ποτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ποτήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4221 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.
- cup idem, page 189.
- goblet idem, page 365.