saporus
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /saˈpoː.rus/, [s̠äˈpoːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈpo.rus/, [säˈpɔːrus]
Adjective
[edit]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
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | sapōrus | sapōra | sapōrum | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōra | |
| genitive | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōrī | sapōrōrum | sapōrārum | sapōrōrum | |
| dative | sapōrō | sapōrae | sapōrō | sapōrīs | |||
| accusative | sapōrum | sapōram | sapōrum | sapōrōs | sapōrās | sapōra | |
| ablative | sapōrō | sapōrā | sapōrō | sapōrīs | |||
| vocative | sapōre | sapōra | sapōrum | sapōrī | sapōrae | sapōra | |
References
[edit]- “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.