potion
pronunciation
How to pronounce potion in British English:
UK [ˈpəʊʃn]
How to pronounce potion in American English:
US [ˈpoʊʃn]
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- Noun:
- a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage
Word Origin
- potion
- potion: [13] The Indo-European base *pō-, *pī- ‘drink’ has provided the verb for ‘drink’ in most modern European languages, apart from the Germanic ones: French boire, for instance, Russian pit’, and Welsh yfed all come from it. Amongst it Latin descendants were the nouns pōtiō ‘drink’, source of English potion (and also poison) and pōtus ‘drink’, the probable ancestor of English pot, and the verb pōtāre ‘drink’, from which English gets potable [16].=> poison, potable
- potion (n.)
- c. 1300, pocioun "medicinal drink," from Old French pocion "potion, draught, medicine" (12c.), from Latin potionem (nominative potio) "a potion, a drinking," also "poisonous draught, magic potion," from potus, irregular past participle of potare "to drink," from PIE root *po(i)- "to drink" (cognates: Sanskrit pati "drinks," panam "beverage;" Greek pinein "to drink," poton "that which one drinks," potos "drinking bout;" Old Church Slavonic piti "to drink," pivo "beverage"). Potus as a past participle adjective in Latin meant "drunken."
Example
- 1. Did you find the potion morgana took ?
- 2. She told the sea witch that she wanted the magic potion .
- 3. She 's taken the potion ! Kiss her now !
- 4. But what about a pill or potion to make you better behaved ?
- 5. Potion ingredients are available for student use from the student store cupboard .