potus

See also: POTUS

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.tus/, [ˈpoːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.tus/, [ˈpɔːt̪us]

Noun

pōtus m (genitive pōtūs); fourth declension

1. drink, draught
2. drinking (action)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōtus	pōtūs
Genitive	pōtūs	pōtuum
Dative	pōtuī	pōtibus
Accusative	pōtum	pōtūs
Ablative	pōtū	pōtibus
Vocative	pōtus	pōtūs

Descendants

• → Italian: poto

Participle

pōtus (feminine pōta, neuter pōtum); first/second-declension participle

1. drunk, having been drunk
2. 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 [go] by foot, some even sail down with a swift skiff; and be not ashamed – having drained [many cups] – 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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pōtus	pōta	pōtum		pōtī	pōtae	pōta
Genitive	pōtī	pōtae	pōtī		pōtōrum	pōtārum	pōtōrum
Dative	pōtō		pōtō		pōtīs
Accusative	pōtum	pōtam	pōtum		pōtōs	pōtās	pōta
Ablative	pōtō	pōtā	pōtō		pōtīs
Vocative	pōte	pōta	pōtum		pōtī	pōtae	pōta

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.