potio

Latin

Etymology

From the supine stem of pōtō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ti.oː/, [ˈpoːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpot.t͡si.o/, [ˈpɔt̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

pōtiō f (genitive pōtiōnis); third declension

1. drinking
2. drink, draught, potion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōtiō	pōtiōnēs
Genitive	pōtiōnis	pōtiōnum
Dative	pōtiōnī	pōtiōnibus
Accusative	pōtiōnem	pōtiōnēs
Ablative	pōtiōne	pōtiōnibus
Vocative	pōtiō	pōtiōnēs

Derived terms

• pōtiōnō

Descendants

• Occitan: poson
• Old French: poison
  • → Dutch: poisoen
  • French: poison
    • → Walloon: pwezon
  • → Middle English: poisoun, poyson, puyson
    • English: poison
• Old Galician-Portuguese: poçon, peçonna, poçonna, poçoya
  • Galician: pezoña
  • Portuguese: peçonha
• Old Spanish: pozón
  • Spanish: pozón
• Romansch: puschun
• Spanish: ponzoña

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: poció
• → Dutch: potie
• → English: potion
• → French: potion
• → Galician: poción
• → Italian: pozione
• → Portuguese: poção
• → Romanian: poțiune
• → Spanish: poción

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^[1], 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