potin

See also: potîn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French potin.

Noun

potin (countable and uncountable, plural potins)

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

Anagrams

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

Finnish

Noun

potin

1. genitive singular of potti

Noun

potin

1. instructive plural of potta

Anagrams

• pinot, ponit, topin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.tɛ̃/

Etymology 1

From pot (“pot, vase”) +‎ -in.

Noun

potin m (plural potins)

1. pewter

Etymology 2

From Norman potin (“gossip”), itself a deverbal from Norman potiner (“to chat”), a verbal formation from Norman potine (“small heater, foot warmer”), based on the custom of women gathering in winter with their foot warmers to chat and gossip. The term potine is itself from pot (“pot, carton”) +‎ -ine (diminutive suffix), and thus etymologically identical to the "pewter" sense of Etymology 1.

Noun

potin m (plural potins)

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

Derived terms

• potiner

Further reading

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

Gun

Noun

pòtin (plural pòtin lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. stake

Latin

Etymology

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

Phrase

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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Usage notes

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

Further reading

• “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.

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [poˈtin]

Noun

potin (definite accusative potini, plural potinler)

1. (chiefly Cyprus) shoe