different between dotation vs potation

English

Etymology

From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dotare (“to endow”).

Noun

dotation (countable and uncountable, plural dotations)

1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

   As to eleemosynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal visitors […]

French

Etymology

From Latin dotatio.

Pronunciation

Noun

dotation f (plural dotations)

1. allowance
2. endowment

Related terms

• doter
• douer

Further reading

• “dotation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

dotation

1. Alternative form of dotacion

English

Etymology

From Middle English potacion, from Old French potacion, from Latin p?t?ti?.

Noun

potation (countable and uncountable, plural potations)

1. (often in the plural) The act of drinking.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe,

     Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.

2. A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage.

   • For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.

Translations

See also

• libation

Anagrams

• optation