sympotic
sympotic adjective: of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
Adjective
sympotic (comparative more sympotic, superlative most sympotic)
- Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
- "Athenaeus, whose Deipnosophistae remains one of our most valuable sources of ancient testimonia about the symposium, apparently had some notion of sympotic reclining as a practice connected to luxruy and moral laxity, but the Athenians do not seem to have shared this view."2012, Kathryn Topper, The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, Cambridge University Press, page 7
- Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature.1996, R. Bracht Branham, Daniel Kinney, Satyrica, University of California Press, footnote 65.1, page 59
- Synonyms:
- symposiac, sympotical
Synonyms of sympotic
Forms of sympotic
| comparative | more sympotic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sympotic |
Origin of sympotic
From Latin sympoticus or Ancient Greek συμποτικός (sumpotikós).
Words formed from sympotic
Questions about sympotic
- What does sympotic mean?
- Sympotic means of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
- What part of speech is sympotic?
- Sympotic is an adjective.
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