sympotic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature."
Etymology
From Latin sympoticus or Ancient Greek συμποτικός (sumpotikós).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sympoticus, συμποτικός
Inflected Forms
more sympotic (comparative)
most sympotic (superlative)