sapio
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of sapiosexual.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sapio (plural sapios)
- (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
[edit]sapio (comparative more sapio, superlative most sapio)
- (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.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *sapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁p-i-, from *seh₁p-.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠äpioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.o/, [ˈsäːpio]
Verb
[edit]sapiō (present infinitive sapere, perfect active sapīvī or sapiī or sapuī); third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem
- (intransitive) to have taste, have flavour
- (transitive) to taste of, taste like, smack of, have a flavour of
- Synonym: lambō
- (figurative, intransitive) to have good taste; have sense, discernment; be sensible, discreet, prudent, wise
- (figurative, transitive) to know, understand (mostly with general objects)
- (Early Medieval Latin) to know how to do; to be able to do
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sapiō (third conjugation iō-variant, no supine stem, active only)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sapium, *sapūtum (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
- → Volapük: sap
Reflexes of an assumed variant *sapēre:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
References
[edit]- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sapere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 938
Further reading
[edit]- “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)
- to be a man of sense, judgment: sapere (Off. 2. 14. 48)
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