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Latin
Etymology
From the supine stem of pōtō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
pōtiō f (genitive pōtiōnis); third declension
- drinking
- drink, draught, potion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “potio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “potio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potio 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)
- potio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est