popina

See also: pöpinä

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin popīna. Doublet of cuisine and kitchen; more at cook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɒˈpaɪnə/, /pɒˈpiːnə/

Noun

popina (plural popinae)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman bar or bistro, selling wine and simple foods.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *kʷokʷ-īnā, the root being from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook”), which also gave Latin coquō, coquere (“to cook”). Doublet of the native coquīna (“kitchen”).

Noun

popīna f (genitive popīnae); first declension

1. bar, bistro, cookshop, restaurant, eating house (place where food and drink was prepared and sold)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	popīna	popīnae
genitive	popīnae	popīnārum
dative	popīnae	popīnīs
accusative	popīnam	popīnās
ablative	popīnā	popīnīs
vocative	popīna	popīnae

References

• “popina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “popina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• popina 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)
• popina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “popina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “popina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin