ποτήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Diminutive of ποτήρ (potḗr, “cup”), from πίνω (pínō, “I drink”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /poˈti.ri.on/ → /poˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /poˈte̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /poˈti.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /poˈti.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /poˈti.ri.on/

Noun

ποτήρῐον • (potḗrion) n (genitive ποτηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. cup
   1. the cup of the Eucharist
   2. jar
   3. receptacle for offerings in a temple
2. absorbent preparation
3. goat's thorn (Astragalus spp., eg, Astragalus poterium, Astragalus tragacanthus)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ποτήρῐον; τοῦ ποτηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek:
  • Modern Greek: ποτήρι (potíri)
  • Tsakonian: ποκήρι (pokíri)
• → Latin: poterium

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cup idem, page 189.
  • goblet idem, page 365.