bibulus

From bibō (“drink”) +‎ -ulus, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from the root *peh₃- (“drink”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ.bʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.bu.lus]

bibulus (feminine bibula, neuter bibulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. fond of drinking; drinking readily or freely; frequently thirsty; bibulous
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.18:

     […] ; potores bibuli media de nocte Falerni oderunt porrecta negantem pocula, quamvis nocturnos iures te formidare tepores.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (of inanimate things) that sucks in or absorbs; absorbent, porous, bibulous
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.346–353:

     Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
     Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
     Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
     Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
     Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
     Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
     Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,
     Hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit canis aestifer arva.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       For the rest, whate'er
       The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
       Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
       Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
       Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
       Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
       And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
       Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
       Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
       This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
       When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.

3. (figuratively) ready to hear; thirsty to listen; listening
   • c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae 4:

     ‘Egregium cum me vicinia dicat, non credam?’ viso si palles, inprobe, nummo, si facis in penem quidquid tibi venit, amarum si puteal multa cautus vibice flagellas, nequiquam populo bibulas donaveris aures.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First/second-declension adjective.

• → English: bibulous
• → Italian: bibulo

• “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bibulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “bibulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• bibulus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 822
• “bibulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bibulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray