The corpus record — Latin

potio2

potio2 · f

a drinking

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Herediolo 2 · 89.69/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 2 · 23.53/10k
De Medicina 123 · 12/10k
Verus 2 · 9.72/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Persa 7 · 8.91/10k
Eumenes 2 · 8.74/10k
Miles Gloriosus 11 · 8.68/10k
Stichus 5 · 8.05/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Mercator 6 · 7.01/10k

Densest 12 of 145 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pōtĭo — Lewis & Short

pōtĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a drinking, a drink, draught, abstr. and concr. (class.).

I In gen.

(a) Abstr.: in mediā potione, Cic. Clu. 10, 30; cf.: contemptissimis escis et potionibus, id. Fin. 2, 28, 90.—

(b) Concr.: cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: cibus et potio, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5: A POTIONE, a cup-bearer, Inscr. Grut. 578, 1.—

II In partic.

A A poisonous draught: potione mulierem sustulit, Cic. Clu. 14, 40; cf.: potio mortis causa data. Quint. Decl. 350: haec potio torquet, Juv. 6, 624.—

B A draught or potion given by physicians: dare potionis aliquid, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 21: potiones ad id efficaces, Cels. 4, 8.—

C A magic potion, philter (poet.), Hor. Epod. 5, 73.—

III Trop.: nam mihi jam intus potione juncea onerabo gulam, load my throat with a draught of rushes, i. e. hang myself with a rope of rushes, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 56.

2. pŏtĭo — Lewis & Short

pŏtĭo, īvi, īre, v. a.potis,

I to put into the power of, to subject to any one: eum nunc potivit pater Servitutis, made a slave of him, reduced him to slavery, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 23: potitu'st hostium, fallen into the enemy's hands, id. Capt. 1, 1, 24; 1, 2, 41; 3, 5, 104; cf. id. Ep. 4, 1, 5; 4, 1, 35; Paul. ex Fest. p. 250 Müll.

In the wild

potiones Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p1
potionis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.136
potiundae Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p17
potionique Celsus, De Medicina 3.6.p2
Potin Plautus, Mercator 2.4
potio Celsus, De Medicina 3.21.p1

6 of 748 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.