# πίνω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* πώνω (pṓnō) — Doric, Aeolic

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”). Cognates include Sanskrit पिबति (pibati), Latin pōtō and bibō, and Albanian pi.
The present tense system includes a N progressive aspect marker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pǐː.nɔː/ → /ˈpi.no/ → /ˈpi.no/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pǐː.nɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpi.no/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpi.no/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpi.no/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpi.no/

### Verb

πῑ́νω • (pī́nō)
* to drink
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1289
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.172
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.825
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.346
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.232
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.469
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.226
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.220
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.96
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.112
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.391
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.225
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.62
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.11
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.86
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 467c
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 417a
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 622
** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 959
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.4
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.4
** (absolute)
*** 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 20
*** 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 124
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 536
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.493
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.476
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.305
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.94
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.249
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 775b
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 117c
*** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 176e
*** 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 14
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.9
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.41
** (figuratively)
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 979
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 736
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.117
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.198
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Downward Journey 27
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1401
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 2.25
* to carouse
** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Gym. 54

#### Derived terms

* ἀμετροπότης (ametropótēs)
* ἀνᾰπίνω (anăpínō)
* ἀντῐπίνω (antĭpínō)
* ἀποπίνω (apopínō)
* ἄποτος (ápotos)
* βρᾰχύποτος (brăkhúpotos)
* γάποτος (gápotos)
* δῐᾰπίνω (dĭăpínō)
* δύσποτος (dúspotos)
* ἐκπίνω (ekpínō)
* ἐμπίνω (empínō)
* ἐπῐπίνω (epĭpínō)
* εὔποτος (eúpotos)
* ζωροπότης (zōropótēs)
* ἡδυπότης (hēdupótēs)
* ἡδύποτος (hēdúpotos)
* θερείποτος (thereípotos)
* κᾰτᾰπίνω (kătăpínō)
* λαβροποτέω (labropotéō)
* μετᾰπίνω (metăpínō)
* μετριοπότης (metriopótēs)
* νεόποτος (neópotos)
* ὀλῐγόποτος (olĭgópotos)
* περίποτος (perípotos)
* πολύποτος (polúpotos)
* προπίνω (propínō)
* προσπίνω (prospínō)
* σεμνόποτος (semnópotos)
* σῠμπίνω (sŭmpínō)
* ὑπερπίνω (huperpínō)
* ὑποπίνω (hupopínō)
* φῐλοπότης (phĭlopótēs)
* ψῡχοπότης (psūkhopótēs)

#### Related terms

* πῐπίσκω (pĭpískō)
* πιστῐκός (pistĭkós)
* ποτέος (potéos)
* πότημᾰ (pótēmă)
* ποτήρ (potḗr)
* ποτήρῐον (potḗrĭon)
* πότης (pótēs)
* ποτής (potḗs)
* ποτῐκός (potĭkós)
* πότῐμος (pótĭmos)
* πότος (pótos)
* ποτός (potós)
* πῶμᾰ (pômă)

#### Descendants

* Greek: πίνω (píno)
* ⇒ Mariupol Greek: пнэшку (pnešku)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίνω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1194-5

### Further reading

* “πίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “πίνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* πίνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* πίνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “πίνω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G4095 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* πίνω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek πῑ́νω (pī́nō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.no/
* Hyphenation: πί‧νω

### Verb

πίνω • (píno) (past ήπια, passive πίνομαι)
* to drink (water, coffee, beers, etc)
* to toast (drink to someone's health)
* to drink (to be a drinker of alcoholic drinks)
* (colloquial) to smoke tobacco, use drugs

#### Related terms

* αποπίνω (apopíno, “to drink up”)
* καταπίνω (katapíno, “to swallow”)
* κουτσοπίνω (koutsopíno, “to gossip, to drink slowly”)
* μπεκροπίνω (bekropíno, “to carouse, to booze”)
* ξαναπίνω (xanapíno, “to drink again”)
* ξεροκαταπίνω (xerokatapíno, “to swallow dryly, swallow with only one's saliva”)
* παραπίνω (parapíno, “to drink too much”)
* προπίνω (propíno, “to drink health”)
* στραβοκαταπίνω (stravokatapíno)