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πότνιʼ (potni)

πότνιʼ is an Ancient Greek form of πότνια, meaning “lady, mistress, queen”. It is the vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.164: πότνιʼ· ἐγὼ δʼ οἰσῶ τὸν ἐμὸν πόνον ὥσπερ ὑπέσταν.

Euripides, Alcestis 1004: χαῖρʼ, ὦ πότνι’, εὖ δὲ δοίης. τοῖαί νιν προσεροῦσι

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 177.1: Πότνιʼ αὔως . . .

All forms of πότνια (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.