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sapio

See also: Sapio

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of sapiosexual.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sapio (plural sapios)

  1. (slang) A sapiosexual.
    The newest student visa worker at the startup was a sapio from an IIT.
    • 2020 January 31, u/noobnoob25, “Found this on quora...”, in Reddit‎[1], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      Quora - Bunch of wannabe IITians/IIMians. Or the self proclaimed sapios.
    • 2020 July 10, “Simpora.”, in Reddit‎[2], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      I like how sapios complain about girls getting quora followers because of their profile pictures and then post these shitty simpy answers
    • 2021 June 11, u/EpiphanyCatharsis, “Younger men, what attracts you to older women?”, in Reddit‎[3], r/AskMen, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      In my 20s I had a memorable liaison with a 40 year old. Beautiful. Smart. Knew what she wanted. Reconciled with many of her issues for years. An incredible experience. I'm sure my upbringing contributed to my attraction to her, and being a sapio she satisfied my need to talk about more than what my peers were preoccupied with.

Adjective

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sapio (comparative more sapio, superlative most sapio)

  1. (Internet slang) Sapiosexual.
    • 2022 July 9, u/summerpassingby, “Never met a smart "sapiosexual"”, in Reddit‎[4], r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      thats why they're sapio, they need someone else to be smart for them
    • 2023 December 27, u/booksandpassion, “Question, are the fellow sapiosexuals also intelligent?”, in Reddit‎[5], r/sapiosexuals, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      I'm one that enjoys intellectual pursuits for my own entertainment, but not all sapios do. Also, navigating relationships with other sapios or non-sapios is something that comes up in this sub. There are a lot of really smart people that aren't sapio in the slightest, but have a SO that is attracted to their brain.
    • 2024 May 7, @5_D, Twitter‎[6], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      I'm so sapio, the sec someone come across dumb, I'm turned off lol.

Italian

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Etymology

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Compare saggio and savio, from Vulgar Latin *sapium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.pjo/
  • Rhymes: -apjo
  • Hyphenation: sà‧pio

Adjective

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sapio (feminine sapia, masculine plural sapi, feminine plural sapie) (Old Italian, regional, rare)

  1. wise
    • 1250s [12th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 120:
      Pelias avenno pagura de Jasone suo nepote, ke era molto sapio et ardito, […] (Romanesco)
      [original: Pelias, timens ne Iason nepos eius sibi regnum auferret, eo quod vir probus erat et strenuus, […]]
      Pelias, being afraid of his nephew Jason, who was very wise and brave, […]

Noun

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sapio m (plural sapi) (Old Italian, regional, rare)

  1. wise man, sage
    • 1250s [12th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 123:
      incontenente Priamus adonao tutti li filii […] et tutti li altri soi filii ke avea de soe concove, et tutti li sapii et tutti li granni de Troja. co li quali abe consilio se devesse commenzare guerra co li Greci. (Romanesco)
      [original: qui, congregatis filiis […] et aliis filiis quos ex concubinis generaverat, et omnibus sapientibus totius Graeciae, maioribus natu praecipue; quorum omnium utrum bellum Graecis indicere]
      Immediately, Priam gathered all his children […] and all the other children of his he had from his concubines, and all the wise men and great men of Troy, whom he consulted about whether or not he was to wage war against the Greeks.

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *sapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁p-i-, from *seh₁p-.

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    Verb

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    sapiō (present infinitive sapere, perfect active sapīvī or sapiī or sapuī); third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem

    1. (intransitive) to have taste, have flavour
    2. (transitive) to taste of, taste like, smack of, have a flavour of
      Synonym: lambō
    3. (figurative, intransitive) to have good taste; have sense, discernment; be sensible, discreet, prudent, wise
      Synonyms: sentiō, percipiō
    4. (figurative, transitive) to know, understand (mostly with general objects)
    5. (Early Medieval Latin) to know how to do; to be able to do

    Conjugation

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       Conjugation of sapiō (third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present sapiō sapis sapit sapimus sapitis sapiunt
    imperfect sapiēbam sapiēbās sapiēbat sapiēbāmus sapiēbātis sapiēbant
    future sapiam sapiēs sapiet sapiēmus sapiētis sapient
    perfect sapīvī,
    sapiī,
    sapuī     		sapīvistī,
    sapiistī,
    sapuistī     		sapīvit,
    sapiit,
    sapuit     		sapīvimus,
    sapiimus,
    sapuimus     		sapīvistis,
    sapiistis,
    sapuistis     		sapīvērunt,
    sapīvēre,
    sapiērunt,
    sapiēre,
    sapuērunt,
    sapuēre
    pluperfect sapīveram,
    sapieram,
    sapueram     		sapīverās,
    sapierās,
    sapuerās     		sapīverat,
    sapierat,
    sapuerat     		sapīverāmus,
    sapierāmus,
    sapuerāmus     		sapīverātis,
    sapierātis,
    sapuerātis     		sapīverant,
    sapierant,
    sapuerant
    future perfect sapīverō,
    sapierō,
    sapuerō     		sapīveris,
    sapieris,
    sapueris     		sapīverit,
    sapierit,
    sapuerit     		sapīverimus,
    sapierimus,
    sapuerimus     		sapīveritis,
    sapieritis,
    sapueritis     		sapīverint,
    sapierint,
    sapuerint
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present sapiam sapiās sapiat sapiāmus sapiātis sapiant
    imperfect saperem saperēs saperet saperēmus saperētis saperent
    perfect sapīverim,
    sapierim,
    sapuerim     		sapīverīs,
    sapierīs,
    sapuerīs     		sapīverit,
    sapierit,
    sapuerit     		sapīverīmus,
    sapierīmus,
    sapuerīmus     		sapīverītis,
    sapierītis,
    sapuerītis     		sapīverint,
    sapierint,
    sapuerint
    pluperfect sapīvissem,
    sapiissem,
    sapuissem     		sapīvissēs,
    sapiissēs,
    sapuissēs     		sapīvisset,
    sapiisset,
    sapuisset     		sapīvissēmus,
    sapiissēmus,
    sapuissēmus     		sapīvissētis,
    sapiissētis,
    sapuissētis     		sapīvissent,
    sapiissent,
    sapuissent
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — sape — — sapite —
    future — sapitō sapitō — sapitōte sapiuntō
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present sapere — sapiēns —
    perfect sapīvisse,
    sapiisse,
    sapuisse     		— — —
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    sapiendī sapiendō sapiendum sapiendō — —

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Dalmatian:
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Catalan: sabre, sebre
      • Gascon: sàber, assàber
      • Occitan: sabre, saupre
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sapium, *sapūtum (see there for further descendants)
    • Borrowings:
      • → Volapük: sap

    Reflexes of an assumed variant *sapēre:

    References

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    • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sapere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 938

    Further reading

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    • “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "sapio", 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)
    • sapio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[7], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to be a man of sense, judgment: sapere (Off. 2. 14. 48)
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