4.4.1
Logeion
Perseus analyses of πόσιος:
πόσις 1 (husband, spouse): masc gen sg (epic doric ionic aeolic)
πόσις 2 (husband, spouse): fem gen sg (epic doric ionic aeolic)
LSJ entry
πόσις 1
πόσις
,
ὁ
,
poet.
πόσσις
AP 6.323
(
Leon.
);
gen.
πόσιος
(no
gen.
is
found
in
Att.
,
πόσεως
only
in
Hdn.Gr.
2.700
);
dat.
πόσει,
Ep.
πόσεϊ
Il. 5.71
;
voc.
πόσι
E. Alc. 323
,
Ar. Th. 913
;
also
πόσις
E. Hel. 1399
:
pl.
πόσεις
Id. IA 176
(lyr.);
acc.
πόσιας
Il. 6.240
:—
A.
husband,
spouse,
Il. 3.329
,
Alcm. 29
,
Inscr.Cypr.
93
H.,
Pi. P. 9.99
,
etc.;
τὸν
ὁμοδέμνιον
π.
A. Ag. 1108
(lyr.);
esp.
lawful
husband,
μὴ
π.
μὲν
Ἡρακλῆς
ἐμὸς
καλῆται,
τῆς
νεωτέρας
δʼ
ἀνήρ
S. Tr. 550
(but
cf.
Il. 24.725
and
763
):
rare
in
Prose,
Arist. Pol. 1335b41
;
π.
καὶ
ἄλοχος
ib.
1253b6
;
κρυπτὸς
π.,
of
a
paramour,
E. Or. 561
.
(I.-E.
potis
‘lord,
master’,
cf.
πότνια,
δεσπότης,
Skt.
pátis
‘lord,
master,
husband’,
pátnī
‘lady,
wife’,
Lat.
potis
(
sum
),
etc.)