“drink” in Latin

potio: potus. Vid: DRINKING.

bibere (verb transitive and intransitive, to drink, from thirst, like a human being; and also IMPROP.; e.g., sanguinem, haustus justitiae; aliquid aure, Hor.): potare (verb transitive and intransitive; to drink like a beast; hence to drink large draughts, to swill one’s self with liquor, tipple, etc.; but potus and potatus are classical, for “having drunk”): haurire (transitively and intransitively, to take or draw any fluid into one’s mouth; especially in large draughts): sorbere (to sip quietly in small quantities, and with half-closed lips, coagulum lactis, ovum): potionem alicujus rei bibere or haurire (to swallow or take off a draught of it): uti aliqua re (to take it as one’s usual drink): vino deditum esse (in the intransitive sense of “to drink” = to be a drunkard; Vid: “to drink hard,” below). To give anybody anything to drink, alicui bibere dare; also anything, aliquid (general term); ministrare alicui bibere (as cup-bearer, attendant, etc.); alicui potandum or potui dare aliquid (a draught of medicine). To order a man something to drink, alicui bibere dari jubere; to drink hard, plurimum bibere (also of drinking much in one particular instance); vino indulgere or deditum esse (habitually): to drink a little too much, paullo plus adhibere (Ter., Heaut., 2, 1, 8): crapulam potare (Plaut., Rud., 2, 7, 28; to drink to intoxication): to drink one’s self drunk, vino se obruere: to drink through whole days, totos dies potare or perpotare: to sit up drinking till night-fall, perpotare ad vesperum: to drink with anybody till he falls under the table, aliquem vino deponere (Plaut., Aul., 3, 6, 39). To drink anybody’s health; Vid: To DRINK TO.