different between drinker vs potator

English

Etymology

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drink?rijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

drinker (plural drinkers)

1. Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
2. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
3. A device from which animals can drink.

   a bell drinker

   a nipple drinker

4. (slang) A pub.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
• (pub): boozer, local, watering hole; See also Thesaurus:pub

Antonyms

• (drunkard): teetotaler, nondrinker; See also Thesaurus:teetotaler

Derived terms

• (drunkard): nondrinker

Translations

Anagrams

• redrink

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch drinkere. Equivalent to drinken +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dri?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: drin?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

Noun

drinker m (plural drinkers)

1. One who drinks.
2. A regular drinker of alcoholic beverages.
3. (obsolete) A smoker.

Derived terms

• bierdrinker
• brandewijndrinker
• tabakdrinker
• wijndrinker

English

Etymology

From Latin p?t?tor.

Noun

potator (plural potators)

1. (obsolete, rare) A drinker.

   • Barnabee , the illustrious potator

Related terms

• potable
• potation

Anagrams

• portato, taproot

Latin

Verb

p?t?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of p?t?

Noun

p?t?tor m (genitive p?t?t?ris); third declension

1. drinker
2. tippler

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• potator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• potator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• potator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette