ὑδροδόχος
Ἀναβάντα γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, καὶ διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς λύπης προσκόψαντα τῷ ζῆν, ἑαυτὸν κατακρημνίσαι → For he ascended the acropolis and then, because he was disgusted with life by reason of his excessive grief, cast himself down the height
English (LSJ)
ὑδροδόχον, containing water, φύσις ὑμενώδης ὑ., of the foetus, Theol.Ar.46.
Greek Monolingual
και ὑδροδόκος, -ον, ΜΑ
1. αυτός που περιέχει νερό ή αυτός που συγκρατεί το νερό
αρχ.
(το αρσ. πληθ. ως ουσ.) οἱ ὑδροδόκοι
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) «λάκκοι».
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ὑδρ(ο)- + -δόχος / -δόκος (< δέχομαι), πρβλ. οἰνο-δόκος, ξενοδόχος].
German (Pape)
Wasser aufnehmend, haltend; Sp., wie Schol. Theocr. 13.46; Nonn. und A.
Translations
cistern
Albanian: cisternë, hauz, bot; Arabic: صِهْرِيج, فِنْطَاس, حَوْض; Armenian: ցիստերն; Azerbaijani: sistern; Belarusian: цыстэрна, бак, рэзервуар, рэзэрвуар; Bulgarian: резервоар, цистерна; Burmese: ရေလှောင်ကန်; Catalan: cisterna; Chinese Mandarin: 水槽; Czech: cisterna; Dalmatian: cistierna; Danish: cisterne; Dutch: cisterne, waterreservoir, regenput, regenwaterput, regenbak, waterkelder; Esperanto: akvujo, cisterno; Estonian: tsistern; Finnish: vesisäiliö, sadevesisäiliö; French: citerne, cuve; Middle French: cisterne; Friulian: cistierne; Galician: canfurna, cisterna, alxube, alxibe; Georgian: ცისტერნა; German: Zisterne; Greek: δεξαμενή, στέρνα; Ancient Greek: ἀποδοχεῖον, δεξαμενή, ἐκδοχεῖον, ἔλυτρον, κολυμβήθρα, λάκκος, σκεπτούριον, συστάς, ὑδρεῖον, ὑδρίον, ὑδροδοχεῖον, ὑδροδόχος, ὑδροθήκη, ὑδροστάσιον, ὑδροχοεῖον, φρέαρ, φρεατία, ψυχαγώγιον; Hebrew: גֵּב; Hindi: टंकी, जलाशय, हौज़; Hungarian: ciszterna, víztároló; Ido: aquuyo; Indonesian: perigi; Irish: sistéal; Istriot: zustierna; Italian: cisterna; Japanese: 水槽, 貯水槽, タンク; Kazakh: шанаш, цистерна; Korean: 탱크, 수조(水槽); Kyrgyz: цистерна; Latin: cisterna, lacus; Latvian: cisterna; Lithuanian: cisterna; Macedonian: цистерна; Maori: kurawai; Middle English: cisterne; Ngazidja Comorian: isima; Norwegian Bokmål: sisterne, cisterne; Nynorsk: sisterne, cisterne; Persian: سیسترن, حوض; Polish: cysterna; Portuguese: cisterna; Romanian: cisternă; Russian: цистерна, бак, резервуар; Sardinian: chisterra, cisterra, gisterra; Scots: cistren; Scottish Gaelic: amar; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: цѝсте̄рна; Roman: cìstērna; Sicilian: jisterna, sterna; Slovak: cisterna, rezervoár; Slovene: cisterna; Spanish: aljibe, cisterna; Swedish: cistern; Tajik: систерн, ҳавз; Thai: ถังน้ำ, แท็งก์น้ำ, ถังเก็บน้ำ; Tibetan: ཆུ་སྒྲོམ; Tigrinya: ጋው; Turkish: sarnıç; Ukrainian: цистерна, бак, резервуар; Urdu: حَوضْ; Uzbek: sisterna; Welsh: seston, dyfrgist
