The corpus record — Latin

sapa

new wine boiled down to a proportion of its original volume

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 9 · 5.75/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. sapa — de Vaan

sapa 'new wine boiled down to a proportion of its original volume' [f. a] (Cato+) IE cognates: Skt. sabarduh- [epithet, esp. of a dairy-cow], OAv. hsbuuant- [adj.] 'juicy?' < *sab-uant-, Arm. ham, OIc. safe, OHG sqfksap' < *sqp- (OE seep, MoDu. sap < Lat. sapa) . It seems unlikely that sapa is derived from sapid 'to taste, know', as advocated by IEW and EM: the Gm. and Arm. cognates also mean 'sap'. If the Ilr. … — [de Vaan, s.v. sapa, p. 552]

2. săpa — Lewis & Short

săpa, ae, f.cf. Germ. Saft; Engl sap,

I must or new wine boiled thick, Varr. ap. Non. 551, 23; 551, 18; Col. 12, 19, 1; Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80; 14, 19, 24, § 121; Ov. F. 4, 780; Mart. 7, 53, 6; Fest. s. v. burranica, p. 30.

3. sapa — Walde–Hofmann

sapa, -ae f. „Saft“ (seit Cato, rom.), sapö m. ds. Misc. Tir., sapor, -öris „Geschmack“ (seit Varro); nach Curtius 512, Vanidek 297 zu an. safe „Saft“, ahd. saf „Saft“, ags. sep ds. (s. u.); dazu arm. ham (*sápno-) „Saft“ und „Geschmack* (Lidén Arm. Stud. 67), av. vigapaaus *vis-säpa- „dessen Säfte Gift sind* (Bartholomae Grdr. 1 148, Airan. Wb. 1473). Gr. áraAóq ,zart* bleibt fern (vlm. als *suag*ós zu ónóc „Safı“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sapa, p. 1382]

In the wild

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Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. sapa (scan p. 552; entry #1542). Root candidates: *sap-, *sab-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sapa (scan p. 618; entry #10161).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sapa (scan pp. 1382-1383; entry #2422). Root candidates: *sápno-, *suap-, *sappa-.

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