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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
- drink, draught
- drinking (action)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
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 by foot, some even sail down with a swift skiff; and be not ashamed – having drained – 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.
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.