poscan.

Brit.

/ˈpɒskə/, U.S.

/ˈpɑskə/

Forms:

α. late Middle English pusk, late Middle English 1600s pusca.

β. 1500s poscum, 1500s– posca.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pōsca, pusca.

Etymology: < classical Latin pōsca mixture of vinegar and water, literally ‘drink’ (Plautus; in post-classical Latin also pusca (a1250 in a British source)) < the stem of pōtāre to drink (see potation n.) + -sca (in ēsca food: see esculent adj. and n.). Compare Italian posca (second half of the 13th cent.; now archaic or literary), Middle French, French†posque (1549). Perhaps compare posset n.The form poscum in quot. 1588 perhaps arose from reanalysis of the Latin feminine singular as neuter plural; the word does not occur in the corresponding passage of the translated source.

Now historical.

A mixture of vinegar and water; (also) weak wine diluted with water or with vinegar-water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] > water and vinegar

posca?1440

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 526 Suspence in rewle, hem kepe with pusk [L. posca] condite, Ypuld in myddis of a day serene.

?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 103 (MED) Þis herbe wole destroie eny venym, if she or here decoccion be drunke with pusca [L. pusca].

?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 180 Pusca [L. pusca] is whos ii partyes ben water and þe þrydde part vynegre or strong wyn..Comyn drunkyn with pusca [L. pusca] whole staunche women floures.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aiv^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Yf ye must wasshe the sore, take wyne or posca, that is to saye oxycraton, or the decoction of some sharpe herbe.

1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method. ii. i. f. 29 Galen exorteth to give the sicke to drinke much vineger mixt with water, commonly called Poscum.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 240 The kernells of the nuts bruised and drunke with Posca possett (that is water and vinegar mingled together).

1739 J. Huxham Ess. Fevers (1750) App. 263 The Roman soldiers drank Posca (viz. Water and Vinegar) for their common Drink.

1874 F. W. Farrar Life of Christ II. lxi. 417 There lay on the ground the large earthen vessel containing the posca, which was the ordinary drink of the Roman soldiers.

1905 D. Smith Days of His Flesh 497 They had with them a beaker of their posca or vinegar water.

1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 3 Apr. 15 The victim might be sedated with posca, the raw vinegary wine that Roman soldiers drank.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	posca
释义	poscan. Brit. /ˈpɒskə/, U.S. /ˈpɑskə/ Forms: α. late Middle English pusk, late Middle English 1600s pusca. β. 1500s poscum, 1500s– posca. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pōsca, pusca. Etymology: < classical Latin pōsca mixture of vinegar and water, literally ‘drink’ (Plautus; in post-classical Latin also pusca (a1250 in a British source)) < the stem of pōtāre to drink (see potation n.) + -sca (in ēsca food: see esculent adj. and n.). Compare Italian posca (second half of the 13th cent.; now archaic or literary), Middle French, French†posque (1549). Perhaps compare posset n.The form poscum in quot. 1588 perhaps arose from reanalysis of the Latin feminine singular as neuter plural; the word does not occur in the corresponding passage of the translated source. Now historical. A mixture of vinegar and water; (also) weak wine diluted with water or with vinegar-water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] > water and vinegar posca?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 526 Suspence in rewle, hem kepe with pusk [L. posca] condite, Ypuld in myddis of a day serene. ?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 103 (MED) Þis herbe wole destroie eny venym, if she or here decoccion be drunke with pusca [L. pusca]. ?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 180 Pusca [L. pusca] is whos ii partyes ben water and þe þrydde part vynegre or strong wyn..Comyn drunkyn with pusca [L. pusca] whole staunche women floures. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aiv^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Yf ye must wasshe the sore, take wyne or posca, that is to saye oxycraton, or the decoction of some sharpe herbe. 1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method. ii. i. f. 29 Galen exorteth to give the sicke to drinke much vineger mixt with water, commonly called Poscum. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 240 The kernells of the nuts bruised and drunke with Posca possett (that is water and vinegar mingled together). 1739 J. Huxham Ess. Fevers (1750) App. 263 The Roman soldiers drank Posca (viz. Water and Vinegar) for their common Drink. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life of Christ II. lxi. 417 There lay on the ground the large earthen vessel containing the posca, which was the ordinary drink of the Roman soldiers. 1905 D. Smith Days of His Flesh 497 They had with them a beaker of their posca or vinegar water. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 3 Apr. 15 The victim might be sedated with posca, the raw vinegary wine that Roman soldiers drank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1440
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