poculum

Borrowed from Latin poculum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒkjʊləm/

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.

• poculiform

• (ante-Classical) poclum

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.

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

pōculum n (genitive pōculī); second declension

1. a drinking cup.

   Visne poculum meri?

   Would you like a cup of strong wine?

Second declension.

• pōculentus

• 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)
• poculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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