potin

From French potin.

potin (countable and uncountable, plural potins)

1. (obsolete) An alloy of copper, zinc, lead, and tin.

• Pinto, Point, opt in, opt-in, pinot, pinto, piton, point

potin

1. genitive singular of potti

potin

1. instructive plural of potta

• pinot, ponit, topin

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.tɛ̃/

potin m (plural potins)

1. pewter

potin m (plural potins)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) gossip, tittle-tattle; item of gossip

• “potin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

pòtin (plural pòtin lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. stake

Syncopic form of poti(s)ne, from potis +‎ -ne.

potin sg (Old Latin) [with ut or ne, along with subjunctive; or with infinitive]

1. can you? can he?
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.110:

     Potin ut cures te atque ut ne parcas mihi?

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2. (entreating) please, pray
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 4.2.94:

     Potin ut taceas?

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   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 175:

     Potin ut taceas? Potin ne moneas?

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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see potis,‎ ne.
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 3.3.31:

     Potin est ab amico alicunde exorari? ― Potest.

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   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 437:

     Potin es mihi verum dicere?

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   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 100–101:

     Dic mihi / hoc primum, potin est hic tacere?

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• Used to address a singular person, usually in the second person.
• Used in collocation with inflections of sum only by Terence, never by Plautus.

• “pŏtĭn'”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pŏtin'”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Ottoman Turkish فوطین (fotin), بوتین (botin), from French bottine.

• IPA^(key): [poˈtin]

potin (definite accusative potini, plural potinler)

1. (chiefly Cyprus) shoe