potion

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Doublet of poison.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəʊ.ʃən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/
  • Rhymes: -əʊʃən
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Noun

potion (plural potions)

  1. A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
    He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

Synonyms

  • lib (Britain dialectal, Scotland)

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Translations

Verb

potion (third-person singular simple present potions, present participle potioning, simple past and past participle potioned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To drug (someone).
    • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, ”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. , London: William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, , →OCLC, book IX ( ), paragraph 49, page 561, column 1:
      [T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pōtiōnem. Doublet of poison, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

Noun

potion f (plural potions)

  1. potion

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