poculum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin poculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒkjʊləm/

Noun

poculum (plural pocula)

1. (historical) A drinking-cup used in Ancient Rome.
   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode

     They sat together over elaborate glass pocula blown in Cologne; the wine too was Rhenish.

Related terms

• poculiform

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Latin

Alternative forms

• (ante-Classical) poclum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pōtlo- (with the instrument suffix *-tlo-, that yields -culum, compare Sanskrit पात्र (pātra, “drinking vessel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“drink”). Compare bibo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ku.lum/, [ˈpoːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ku.lum/, [ˈpɔːkulum]

Noun

pōculum n (genitive pōculī); second declension

1. a drinking cup.

   Visne poculum meri?

   Would you like a cup of strong wine?

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōculum	pōcula
Genitive	pōculī	pōculōrum
Dative	pōculō	pōculīs
Accusative	pōculum	pōcula
Ablative	pōculō	pōculīs
Vocative	pōculum	pōcula

Derived terms

• pōculentus

Descendants

• ⇒ English: poculiform
• Italian: poculo
• Portuguese: púcaro
  • → Spanish: búcaro
    • → Italian: bucchero, buccaro (archaic)
      • → English: bucchero
• Spanish: póculo

References

• “poculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “poculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• poculum 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)
• poculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
    
  • I drink your health: propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem)
    
  • whilst drinking; at table: inter pocula
    
  • to empty a cup at a draught: exhaurire poculum
    
• “poculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “poculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN