saporus
Latin
Etymology
From sapor, cf. formations in Silver Latin such as honorus from honor, odorus from odor, and the back-formation decor from decorus competing with older decus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈpoː.rus/, [saˈpoː.rʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈpo.rus/, [saˈpɔː.rus]
Adjective
sapōrus (feminine sapōra, neuter sapōrum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) savory, delicious
- c. 250 CE – c. 325 CE, Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 3.16.15:
- Et Seneca, Nondum sunt, inquit, mille anni, ex quo initia sapientiae mota sunt. Multis ergo saeculis humanum genus sine ratione vixit. Quod irridens Persius, Postquam, inquit, sapere Urbi / cum pipere et palmis venit, tamquam sapientia cum saporis mercibus fuerit invecta.
- And so Seneca says, It isn't yet a thousand years since the beginnings of wisdom. For many centuries, then, humanity (allegedly) lived without reason. Persius laughed at this saying: After taste (wisdom) came to the City with pepper and palm dates, as if wisdom had been brought in with savory merchandise.
- Et Seneca, Nondum sunt, inquit, mille anni, ex quo initia sapientiae mota sunt. Multis ergo saeculis humanum genus sine ratione vixit. Quod irridens Persius, Postquam, inquit, sapere Urbi / cum pipere et palmis venit, tamquam sapientia cum saporis mercibus fuerit invecta.
- d. 1164, Hugh of Amiens, Dialogorum libri VIII 1241A, (as cited in "saporus", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):
- anima ... tota naribus odora, tota palato sapora, tota corpore sentit palpabilia
- The soul ... perceives all smells with the nose, all savory things with the palate, all that can be sensed by touch with the body.
- anima ... tota naribus odora, tota palato sapora, tota corpore sentit palpabilia
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sapōrus | sapōra | sapōrum | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōra | |
| Genitive | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōrī | sapōrōrum | sapōrārum | sapōrōrum | |
| Dative | sapōrō | sapōrō | sapōrīs | ||||
| Accusative | sapōrum | sapōram | sapōrum | sapōrōs | sapōrās | sapōra | |
| Ablative | sapōrō | sapōrā | sapōrō | sapōrīs | |||
| Vocative | sapōre | sapōra | sapōrum | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōra | |
References
- saporus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- saporus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saporus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette