potio
Latin
Etymology
From the supine stem of pōtō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpoː.ti.oː/, [ˈpoːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpot.t͡si.o/, [ˈpɔt̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
pōtiō f (genitive pōtiōnis); third declension
- drinking
- drink, draught, potion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pōtiō | pōtiōnēs |
| Genitive | pōtiōnis | pōtiōnum |
| Dative | pōtiōnī | pōtiōnibus |
| Accusative | pōtiōnem | pōtiōnēs |
| Ablative | pōtiōne | pōtiōnibus |
| Vocative | pōtiō | pōtiōnēs |
Derived terms
- pōtiōnō
Descendants
- Catalan: poció
- Dutch: potie, poisoen
- English: potion, poison
- French: potion, poison
- Galician: pezoña, poción
- Italian: pozione
- Occitan: poson
- Old Portuguese: poçon
- Portuguese: poção, peçonha
- Romanian: poțiune
- Romansch: puschun
- Spanish: pozón, poción, ponzoña
- Walloon: pwezon
References
- “potio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “potio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- potio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione