water-drinker
water-drinker, X. Cyr. 6.2.29; used of a thin-blooded, mean-spirited fellow, AP 11.20 (Antip. Thess.); cf. ὑδατοπότης.
The corpus record
ὑδρο-πότης
udropotes · ὁ
water-drinker
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὑδροποτῶν · hydropotōn Plato, Republic 8.561 (DIORISIS sentence 5088)
- ὑδροπόται · hydropotai Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.29 (DIORISIS sentence 3236)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.