perpoto Latin · revision 34351

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pōtus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈpoː.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈpɔː.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perpōtō''' (present infinitive perpōtāre, perfect active perpōtāvī, supine perpōtum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|pōtō|t2=to drink]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists the simple verb among the derivatives of [[m|la|pōtus|t=drunk]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*pōto-|t=drunk]] and [[ine-pro|*peh₃-|t=to drink]]; he compares [[hit|pāš-i|t=to swallow]] and [[grc|ἐπόθην|tr=epóthēn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first use is in Plautus' ''Mostellaria'', of someone who drank without a break after his father had gone abroad, ''perpotasse adsiduo''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its usual sense is to drink on and on, to carouse, often with a note of censure:^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Cicero speaks of drinking whole days through and of one who, hiding, ''perpotavit ad vesperum'', drank until evening.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius writes of the mad delight in drinking, and Quintilian uses it of drinking in the baths.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Lucretius uses it transitively, of children drinking down the bitter juice of wormwood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of continual drinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it transitively, “to drink up”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of drinking whole days and until evening.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius writes of the delight in drinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To drink heavily, [[m|en|carouse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To drink the whole of, [[m|en|drink up]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perpōtātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}