popīna
Meaning
- bar, bistro, cookshop, restaurant, eating house (place where food and drink was prepared and sold)
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Deversorium · Hospitium · Caupona · Taberna · Popina · Ganeum
Deversorium is any house of reception on a journey, whether one’s own property, or that of one’s friends, or of inn-keepers; hospitium, an inn for the reception of strangers; caupona (from καρποῦσθαι?) a tavern kept by a publican. These establishments afford lodging as well as food; whereas tabernæ, popinæ, ganea, only food, like restaurateurs; tabernæ (from trabes?), for the common people, as eating-houses; popinæ (from popa, πέψαι), for gentlefolks and gourmands, like ordinaries; ganea (from ἀγανός?), for voluptuaries. (vi. 101.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | popīna | popīnae |
| genitive | popīnae | popīnārum |
| dative | popīnae | popīnīs |
| accusative | popīnam | popīnās |
| ablative | popīnā | popīnīs |
| vocative | popīna | popīnae |
caupona, taberna): bibitur, estur, quasi in popinā, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 13; Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69; 13, 11, 24; Suet. Tib. 34; id. Ner. 16; Hor. S. 2, 4, 62; id. Ep. 1, 14, 21; Mart. 1, 42, 10; 5, 70, 3; Juv. 8, 172; 11, 81. —si epulae potius quam popinae nominandae sunt, Cic. Phil. 3, 8, 20: taeterrimam popinam inhalare, id. Pis. 6, 13.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Borrowed from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *kʷokʷ-īnā, the root being from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook”), which also gave Latin coquō, coquere (“to cook”). Doublet of the native coquīna (“kitchen”).