cup

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. κύλιξ, ἡ (Plato and Euripides, Cyclops 164), ἔκπωμα, τό, φιάλη, ἡ, κύαθος, ὁ (Xen. and Euripides,. Fragment), Ar. ποτήριον, τό, τρύβλιον, τό, V. ποτήρ, ὁ, σκύφος, ὁ or τό (Euripides, Cyclops 256), σκυφώματα, τά (Aesch., Fragment), καρχήσιον, τό (Sophocles, Fragment), τεῦχος, τό, δέπας, τό (Euripides, Hecuba 527).

small cup: P. κυμβίον, τό.

gold cup: Ar. χρυσίς, ἡ.

Met., of a flower: Ar. and V. κάλυξ, ἡ.

the hollow part of anything: use P. and V. τὸ κοῖλον.

the conduct of this monster in his cups is horrible: P. ἡ παροινία τοῦ καθάρματος τουτουῒ δεινή (Dem. 403).

he taunts me in his cups with being no true son of my father: καλεῖ παρ' οἴνῳ πλαστὸς ὡς εἴην πατρί (Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 780).