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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Other potables? #99516 03/27/03 09:33 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel OP Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... tsuwm's useless word compotation today caught my eye and probably ear, too, since I've been hearing reports of the need for 'potable' water in southern Iraq. tsuwm informed us that compotation is the act of drinking together. I'll assume that the 'pot' is a root having to do with drinking that connects compotation and potable. But my question is: What are some other words that have to do with drinking that derive from the 'pot' root [Latin: potare]? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99517 03/27/03 11:11 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 ?potion Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99518 03/27/03 12:07 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok "Potable" and all related words hark back to one of the most debowdlerised Latin words used by that thirsty race. Here are some related Latin words from an online dictionary and their English definitions. You can tell that the meaning and content of the basic word poto potare potavi potatum underwent expansion over time ... potatio -onis f. [a drinking bout]. potio (1) -onis f. [drinking; a drink , a draught]; esp. [a love-draught, philtre]. poto potare potavi potatum and potum [to drink]; esp. [to drink heavily]; of things , [to absorb]. Hence partic. potus -a -um: pass. [drunk, drained]; act. [having drunk, drunken]. potor -oris m. [a drinker]; esp. [a tippler , drunkard]. potulentus (poculentus) -a -um [drinkable; drunk , intoxicated]. potus (1) -a -um partic. from poto; q.v. potus (2) -us m. [a drinking , draught]. FWIW - Pfranz Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99519 03/27/03 12:55 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York symposium? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99520 03/27/03 01:16 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 symposium Same IE root but through the Latin from the Greek, posis, drinking. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99521 03/27/03 01:21 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Let us not forget our men who are fighting in Mesopotamia, "The land between the rivers" (Tigris and Euphrates). Dear WW: and they might see a hippopotamux. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99522 03/27/03 02:21 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Mesopotamia Different root: http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE405.html We been through this before. Closer related are beer, bibulous and poison: http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE417.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99523 03/27/03 02:32 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: what is your point? the citation in AHD says "pet" and "pot" words are from same root And I have seen Mesopotamia" called the lande between the rivers by competent scholars. And the bulbous beasts called "river horses" by ditto. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: compotation #99524 03/27/03 02:47 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass coincidentally (or not), I received this reply from a subscriber: this would be a synonym for Symposium - no? Coming through a different root language? I should send this guy a link.. p.s. - following up on Pfranz' post, I offer a little drink of love potion #9 to Faldage and dr. bill. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99525 03/27/03 02:51 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the citation in AHD says "pet" and "pot" words are from same root Yeahbut©, poi isn't. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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