sapio

See also: Sapio

English

Etymology

Clipping of sapiosexual.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sapio (plural sapios)

1. (slang) A sapiosexual.

   The newest student visa worker at the startup was a sapio from an IIT.

   • 2020 January 31, u/noobnoob25, “Found this on quora...”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     Quora - Bunch of wannabe IITians/IIMians. Or the self proclaimed sapios.

   • 2020 July 10, “Simpora.”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I like how sapios complain about girls getting quora followers because of their profile pictures and then post these shitty simpy answers

   • 2021 June 11, u/EpiphanyCatharsis, “Younger men, what attracts you to older women?”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/AskMen, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     In my 20s I had a memorable liaison with a 40 year old. Beautiful. Smart. Knew what she wanted. Reconciled with many of her issues for years. An incredible experience. I'm sure my upbringing contributed to my attraction to her, and being a sapio she satisfied my need to talk about more than what my peers were preoccupied with.

Adjective

sapio (comparative more sapio, superlative most sapio)

1. (Internet slang) Sapiosexual.
   • 2022 July 9, u/summerpassingby, “Never met a smart "sapiosexual"”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     thats why they're sapio, they need someone else to be smart for them

   • 2023 December 27, u/booksandpassion, “Question, are the fellow sapiosexuals also intelligent?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/sapiosexuals, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I'm one that enjoys intellectual pursuits for my own entertainment, but not all sapios do. Also, navigating relationships with other sapios or non-sapios is something that comes up in this sub. There are a lot of really smart people that aren't sapio in the slightest, but have a SO that is attracted to their brain.

   • 2024 May 7, @5_D, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I'm so sapio, the sec someone come across dumb, I'm turned off lol.

Italian

Etymology

Compare saggio and savio, from Vulgar Latin *sapium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pjo/
• Rhymes: -apjo
• Hyphenation: sà‧pio

Adjective

sapio (feminine sapia, masculine plural sapi, feminine plural sapie) (Old Italian)

1. wise
   • 1250s [12^th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 120:

     Pelias avenno pagura de Jasone suo nepote, ke era molto sapio et ardito, […] (Rome)

     [original: Pelias, timens ne Iason nepos eius sibi regnum auferret, eo quod vir probus erat et strenuus, […]]

     Pelias, being afraid of his nephew Jason, who was very wise and brave, […]

Noun

sapio m (plural sapi) (Old Italian)

1. wise man, sage
   • 1250s [12^th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 123:

     incontenente Priamus adonao tutti li filii […] et tutti li altri soi filii ke avea de soe concove, et tutti li sapii et tutti li granni de Troja. co li quali abe consilio se devesse commenzare guerra co li Greci. (Rome)

     [original: qui, congregatis filiis […] et aliis filiis quos ex concubinis generaverat, et omnibus sapientibus totius Graeciae, maioribus natu precipue; quorum omnium utrum bellum Graecis indicere]

     Immediately, Priam gathered all his children […] and all the other children of his he had from his concubines, and all the wise men and great men of Troy, whom he consulted about whether or not he was to wage war against the Greeks.

References

• “sapio”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 17 robb–schi, UTET, 1994, page 556

Latin

Alternative forms

• *sapiō, *sapēre (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁p-i-, from *seh₁p-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠äpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pi.o/, [ˈsäːpio]

Verb

sapiō (present infinitive sapere, perfect active sapīvī or sapiī or sapuī); third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem

1. (intransitive) to have taste, have flavour
2. (transitive) to taste of, taste like, smack of, have a flavour of

   Synonym: lambō

3. (figurative, intransitive) to have good taste; have sense, discernment; be sensible, discreet, prudent, wise

   Synonyms: sentiō, percipiō

4. (figurative, transitive) to know, understand (mostly with general objects)
5. (Early Medieval Latin) to know how to do; to be able to do

Conjugation

   Conjugation of sapiō (third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	sapiō		sapis		sapit		sapimus		sapitis		sapiunt
	imperfect	sapiēbam		sapiēbās		sapiēbat		sapiēbāmus		sapiēbātis		sapiēbant
	future	sapiam		sapiēs		sapiet		sapiēmus		sapiētis		sapient
	perfect	sapīvī, sapiī, sapuī		sapīvistī, sapiistī, sapuistī		sapīvit, sapiit, sapuit		sapīvimus, sapiimus, sapuimus		sapīvistis, sapiistis, sapuistis		sapīvērunt, sapīvēre, sapiērunt, sapiēre, sapuērunt, sapuēre
	pluperfect	sapīveram, sapieram, sapueram		sapīverās, sapierās, sapuerās		sapīverat, sapierat, sapuerat		sapīverāmus, sapierāmus, sapuerāmus		sapīverātis, sapierātis, sapuerātis		sapīverant, sapierant, sapuerant
	future perfect	sapīverō, sapierō, sapuerō		sapīveris, sapieris, sapueris		sapīverit, sapierit, sapuerit		sapīverimus, sapierimus, sapuerimus		sapīveritis, sapieritis, sapueritis		sapīverint, sapierint, sapuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	sapiam		sapiās		sapiat		sapiāmus		sapiātis		sapiant
	imperfect	saperem		saperēs		saperet		saperēmus		saperētis		saperent
	perfect	sapīverim, sapierim, sapuerim		sapīverīs, sapierīs, sapuerīs		sapīverit, sapierit, sapuerit		sapīverīmus, sapierīmus, sapuerīmus		sapīverītis, sapierītis, sapuerītis		sapīverint, sapierint, sapuerint
	pluperfect	sapīvissem, sapiissem, sapuissem		sapīvissēs, sapiissēs, sapuissēs		sapīvisset, sapiisset, sapuisset		sapīvissēmus, sapiissēmus, sapuissēmus		sapīvissētis, sapiissētis, sapuissētis		sapīvissent, sapiissent, sapuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		sape		—		—		sapite		—
	future	—		sapitō		sapitō		—		sapitōte		sapiuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		sapere			—			sapiēns			—
perfect		sapīvisse, sapiisse, sapuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		sapiendī		sapiendō		sapiendum		sapiendō		—		—

Derived terms

• consipiō
• dēsipiō
• praesipiō
• resipiō
• resipiscō
• sapere audē
• sapidus
• sapiēns
• sapientia
• sapientipotēns
• sapor
• supersapiō

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • sapro
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: sabre, sebre
  • Gascon: sàber, assàber
  • Occitan: sabre, saupre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: saper, saber, sabre
  • Asturian: saber
  • Mirandese: saber
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: saber
    • Galician: saber
    • Portuguese: saber
  • Spanish: saber (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sapium, *sapūtum (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Volapük: sap

Reflexes of an assumed variant *sapēre:

• Dalmatian:
  • sapar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: sapè
  • Italian: sapere

    Lazio: sapì

    • → Sardinian: sapere, sapiri
  • Neapolitan: sapere
  • Sicilian: sapiri
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: savì, savei, savé
    • Ligurian: savéi
    • Lombard: savei, savè, saì
    • Piedmontese: savej
  • Friulian: savê
  • Istriot: savì
  • Romansch: savair, saver, saveir
  • Venetan: saver
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: saber
  • Franco-Provençal: savêr, chair (Valaisan), saveir, saer, saeir (Valdôtain)
  • Old French: savoir (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: saber (several dialects)

    Limousin: sapcher

    Provençal: sacher

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sapere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 938

Further reading

• “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sapio", 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)
• sapio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[7], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a man of sense, judgment: sapere (Off. 2. 14. 48)