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語源

From 中期英語 pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Displaced native 古期英語 drenċ whence Modern English drench. Doublet of poison.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpəʊ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/
• (South Asia) IPA: /poːʃən/
  • Homophone: portion (non-rhotic)
• 韻: -əʊʃən

名詞

potion (plural potions)

1. A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.

   He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

   • 2025 February, Tyler Colp, “Reinstall: Path of Exile”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, page 92:

     Everything changed when I found this potion that gives me a huge speed boost whenever I drink it.

同意語

• lib (Britain dialectal, Scotland)

派生語

動詞

potion (third-person singular simple present potions, present participle potioning, simple past and past participle potioned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To drug (someone).
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 49, page 561, column 1:

     [T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.

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