potor Latin · revision 34597

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *peh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpoː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɔː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pōtor''' ''m'' (genitive pōtōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pōtō|-tor|t1=to drink]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL derives it from the same root as [[m|la|pōtus|t=drunk]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces this family to [[ine-pro|*peh₃-|t=to drink]], and explains the ⟨pō-⟩ of the derivatives as spread from ⟨pōtus⟩ and [[m|la|pōculum|t=cup]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with the Aeolic Greek imperative [[m|grc|πῶθι|tr=pôthi|t=drink!]] and [[lt|puotà|t=drinking bout]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Horace,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who says he will be known to the “drinker of the Rhone”, that is, to those who live by the river (''Rhodanique potor'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the general sense it means one who drinks something, as Horace's ''aquae potores'', water-drinkers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) More often it means a hard drinker or toper: Propertius speaks of the brawls of drinkers, Horace of “keen drinkers”, and Pliny the Elder and Martial use it in the same way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval British sources it still names a habitual drinker;^(DMLBS) Osbern of Gloucester explains it as a shortened ⟨potator⟩.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of people who drink the Rhone and of hard drinkers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius speaks of the brawls of drinkers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of hard drinkers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1157 – John of Salisbury uses it in a letter.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|drinker]] (of something); ''Rhodani potor'', one who lives by the Rhone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A hard drinker, [[m|en|toper]], [[m|en|drunkard]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pōtōrius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}