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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

Noun

pōtus m (genitive pōtūs); fourth declension

  1. drink, draught
  2. drinking (action)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italian: poto

Participle

pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle

  1. drunk, having been drunk
  2. 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.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Adjective

pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle

  1. 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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