potus
Appearance
See also: POTUS
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₃tós (“(having been) drunk; having drunk”), derived from the root *peh₃- (“to drink”).
Synchronically the perfect passive participle of pōtō (“I drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpoː.tus/, [ˈpoːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpo.tus/, [ˈpɔːt̪us]
Noun
[edit]pōtus m (genitive pōtūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | pōtus | pōtūs |
genitive | pōtūs | pōtuum |
dative | pōtuī | pōtibus |
accusative | pōtum | pōtūs |
ablative | pōtū | pōtibus |
vocative | pōtus | pōtūs |
Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: poto
Participle
[edit]pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle
- drunk, having been drunk
- drained, having been drained
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.777–778:
- pars pede, pars etiam celerī dēcurrite cumbā,
nec pudeat pōtōs inde redīre domum- Some [go] by foot, some even sail down with a swift skiff; and be not ashamed – having drained [many cups] – to return home from there.
(Which is to say that, with so many cups having been drained, the people have become drunk or intoxicated at the June festival of Fors Fortuna.)
- Some [go] by foot, some even sail down with a swift skiff; and be not ashamed – having drained [many cups] – to return home from there.
- pars pede, pars etiam celerī dēcurrite cumbā,
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | pōtus | pōta | pōtum | pōtī | pōtae | pōta | |
genitive | pōtī | pōtae | pōtī | pōtōrum | pōtārum | pōtōrum | |
dative | pōtō | pōtae | pōtō | pōtīs | |||
accusative | pōtum | pōtam | pōtum | pōtōs | pōtās | pōta | |
ablative | pōtō | pōtā | pōtō | pōtīs | |||
vocative | pōte | pōta | pōtum | pōtī | pōtae | pōta |
Adjective
[edit]pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle
- drunk (intoxicated)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | pōtus | pōta | pōtum | pōtī | pōtae | pōta | |
genitive | pōtī | pōtae | pōtī | pōtōrum | pōtārum | pōtōrum | |
dative | pōtō | pōtae | pōtō | pōtīs | |||
accusative | pōtum | pōtam | pōtum | pōtōs | pōtās | pōta | |
ablative | pōtō | pōtā | pōtō | pōtīs | |||
vocative | pōte | pōta | pōtum | pōtī | pōtae | pōta |
References
[edit]- “potus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “potus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potus 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)
- potus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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