ὑδροδόχος
ἀλώπηξ, αἰετοῦ ἅ τ' ἀναπιτναμένα ῥόμβον ἴσχει → a fox, which, by spreading itself out, wards off the eagle's swoop
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
