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See also: POTUS
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpoː.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔː.t̪us]
Noun
pōtus m (genitive pōtūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Italian: poto
Participle
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
First/second-declension adjective.
Adjective
pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle
- drunk (intoxicated)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “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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