English

Noun

poculum ‎(plural pocula)

1. A drinking-cup used in Ancient Rome.
   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode

     They sat together over elaborate glass pocula blown in Cologne; the wine too was Rhenish.

Related terms

• poculiform

Latin

Alternative forms

• (ante-Classical) poclum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pōtlo- (with the instrument suffix *-tlo-, that yields -culum, compare Sanskrit पात्र ‎(pātra, “drinking vessel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- ‎(“drink”). Compare bibo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ku.lum/, [ˈpoː.kʊ.ɫũ]

Noun

pōculum n ‎(genitive pōculī); second declension

1. a drinking cup.

   Velisne poculum potionis Arabicae?

   Would you like a cup of coffee?

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• pōculentus

Descendants

References

• poculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• poculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• POCULUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “poculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
    
  • I drink your health: propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem)
    
  • whilst drinking; at table: inter pocula
    
  • to empty a cup at a draught: exhaurire poculum
    
• poculum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• poculum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill