Borrowed from English pot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.to/

poto class 5 (plural mapoto class 6)

1. pot

poto

1. (anatomy) abdomen
2. (anatomy) stomach

   Synonym: fowang

From German Pott and English pot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoto/

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: po‧to

poto (accusative singular poton, plural potoj, accusative plural potojn)

1. pot (vessel)

• florpoto (“flowerpot”)
• kuirpoto (“cooking pot”)

• “poto”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “poto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

poto m (plural potos)

1. (slang) informal spelling of poteau (“dude, buddy”)

From French poteau.

• IPA^(key): /poto/

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poto

1. pillar, post, pole

• poto mitan

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 153

• IPA^(key): [ˈpot̪o]

poto (plural poto-poto)

1. nonstandard spelling of foto (“photo”)

Borrowed from Latin pōtus, from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₃tós (“(having been) drunk; having drunk”), derived from the root *peh₃- (“to drink”).
Cognate with Greek ποτό (potó, “drink, beverage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: pò‧to

poto m (plural poti) (literary, obsolete)

1. beverage, drink

   Synonyms: bevanda, (literary, rare) poculo

2. (uncountable) the act of drinking

   Synonym: bere

• potabile
• potare
• pozione

• poto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.to/
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: pó‧to

poto

1. first-person singular present indicative of potare (“to prune”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: pò‧to

poto

1. first-person singular present indicative of potare (“to drink”)

• opto, opto-, optò, topo, topo-

• apoto (Guyana, Venezuela, West Suriname)

From Proto-Cariban *apoto; compare Yabarana tapotoi, Ye'kwana ajo'jo.

• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [poʔto]

poto (possessed potory, plural potonon) (East Suriname)

1. bigness, largeness
2. greatness, importance

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 351
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “poto”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 387; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[3], Paris, 1956, page 378

From pōtus +‎ -ō. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic пити (piti), Ancient Greek πῑ́νω (pī́nō), Sanskrit पिबति (píbati). Compare the noun pōtus (“drink”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpoː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.to]

pōtō (present infinitive pōtāre, perfect active pōtāvī, supine pōtum or pōtātum); first conjugation

1. to drink

   Synonym: bibō

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.327–330:

     Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
     Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
     currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
     […]

     • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900

       When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
       And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
       Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
       From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
       […]

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• pōtor

• Piedmontese: poé
• → Italian: potare
• → Spanish: potar

• “poto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “poto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drink to excess; to be a drunkard: potare
    
• poto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

poto

1. short

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoto/ [ˈpo.t̪o]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: po‧to

From Mapudungun poto (“bottom, underside”), from Quechua putu (“vessel”), from Mochica potos (“genitals”).

poto m (plural potos)

1. (Peru, Chile) buttocks; butt

   Synonyms: nalga, pompa, culo, trasero

poto

1. first-person singular present indicative of potar

• “poto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “poto”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• poto | Diccionario • DELE Ahora

poto

1. short
2. small, little

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[6] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “poto” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

From English photo.

poto

1. photograph

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