potion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Doublet of poison.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
potion (plural potions)
- 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 edit
- lib (Britain dialectal, Scotland)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical
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Verb edit
potion (third-person singular simple present potions, present participle potioning, simple past and past participle potioned)
- (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 ([Englands Monarchs] […]), 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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pōtiōnem. Doublet of poison, which was inherited.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
potion f (plural potions)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “potion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.