sapio

See also: Sapio

English

Etymology

Clipping of sapiosexual.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sapio (plural sapios)

1. (slang) A sapiosexual.

   The newest student visa worker at the startup was a sapio from an IIT.

   • 2020 January 31, u/noobnoob25, “Found this on quora...”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     Quora - Bunch of wannabe IITians/IIMians. Or the self proclaimed sapios.

   • 2020 July 10, “Simpora.”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/indianpeoplequora, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I like how sapios complain about girls getting quora followers because of their profile pictures and then post these shitty simpy answers

   • 2021 June 11, u/EpiphanyCatharsis, “Younger men, what attracts you to older women?”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/AskMen, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     In my 20s I had a memorable liaison with a 40 year old. Beautiful. Smart. Knew what she wanted. Reconciled with many of her issues for years. An incredible experience. I'm sure my upbringing contributed to my attraction to her, and being a sapio she satisfied my need to talk about more than what my peers were preoccupied with.

Adjective

sapio (comparative more sapio, superlative most sapio)

1. (Internet slang) Sapiosexual.
   • 2022 July 9, u/summerpassingby, “Never met a smart "sapiosexual"”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     thats why they're sapio, they need someone else to be smart for them

   • 2023 December 27, u/booksandpassion, “Question, are the fellow sapiosexuals also intelligent?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/sapiosexuals, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I'm one that enjoys intellectual pursuits for my own entertainment, but not all sapios do. Also, navigating relationships with other sapios or non-sapios is something that comes up in this sub. There are a lot of really smart people that aren't sapio in the slightest, but have a SO that is attracted to their brain.

   • 2024 May 7, @5_D, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     I'm so sapio, the sec someone come across dumb, I'm turned off lol.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁p-i-, from *seh₁p-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠äpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pi.o/, [ˈsäːpio]

Verb

sapiō (present infinitive sapere, perfect active sapīvī or sapiī or sapuī); third conjugation iō-variant, no passive, no supine stem

1. (intransitive) to have taste, have flavour
2. (transitive) to taste of, taste like, smack of, have a flavour of

   Synonym: lambō

3. (figurative, intransitive) to have good taste; have sense, discernment; be sensible, discreet, prudent, wise

   Synonyms: sentiō, percipiō

4. (figurative, transitive) to know, understand (mostly with general objects)
5. (Early Medieval Latin) to know how to do; to be able to do

Conjugation

Conjugation of sapiō (third conjugation iō-variant, no supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sapiō	sapis	sapit	sapimus	sapitis	sapiunt
	imperfect	sapiēbam	sapiēbās	sapiēbat	sapiēbāmus	sapiēbātis	sapiēbant
	future	sapiam	sapiēs	sapiet	sapiēmus	sapiētis	sapient
	perfect	sapīvī, sapiī, sapuī	sapīvistī, sapiistī, sapuistī	sapīvit, sapiit, sapuit	sapīvimus, sapiimus, sapuimus	sapīvistis, sapiistis, sapuistis	sapīvērunt, sapīvēre, sapiērunt, sapiēre, sapuērunt, sapuēre
	pluperfect	sapīveram, sapieram, sapueram	sapīverās, sapierās, sapuerās	sapīverat, sapierat, sapuerat	sapīverāmus, sapierāmus, sapuerāmus	sapīverātis, sapierātis, sapuerātis	sapīverant, sapierant, sapuerant
	future perfect	sapīverō, sapierō, sapuerō	sapīveris, sapieris, sapueris	sapīverit, sapierit, sapuerit	sapīverimus, sapierimus, sapuerimus	sapīveritis, sapieritis, sapueritis	sapīverint, sapierint, sapuerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sapiam	sapiās	sapiat	sapiāmus	sapiātis	sapiant
	imperfect	saperem	saperēs	saperet	saperēmus	saperētis	saperent
	perfect	sapīverim, sapierim, sapuerim	sapīverīs, sapierīs, sapuerīs	sapīverit, sapierit, sapuerit	sapīverīmus, sapierīmus, sapuerīmus	sapīverītis, sapierītis, sapuerītis	sapīverint, sapierint, sapuerint
	pluperfect	sapīvissem, sapiissem, sapuissem	sapīvissēs, sapiissēs, sapuissēs	sapīvisset, sapiisset, sapuisset	sapīvissēmus, sapiissēmus, sapuissēmus	sapīvissētis, sapiissētis, sapuissētis	sapīvissent, sapiissent, sapuissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	sape	—	—	sapite	—
	future	—	sapitō	sapitō	—	sapitōte	sapiuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		sapere	sapīvisse, sapiisse, sapuisse	—	—	—	—
participles		sapiēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		sapiendī	sapiendō	sapiendum	sapiendō	—	—

Derived terms

• consipiō
• dēsipiō
• praesipiō
• resipiō
• resipiscō
• sapere audē
• sapidus
• sapiēns
• sapientia
• sapientipotēns
• sapor
• supersapiō

 

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • sapro
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: sabre, sebre
  • Gascon: sàber, assàber
  • Occitan: sabre, saupre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: saper, saber, sabre
  • Asturian: saber
  • Mirandese: saber
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: saber
    • Galician: saber
    • Portuguese: saber
  • Spanish: saber (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sapium, *sapūtum (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Volapük: sap

Reflexes of an assumed variant *sapēre:

• Dalmatian:
  • sapar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: sapè
  • Italian: sapere

    Lazio: sapì

    • → Sardinian: sapere, sapiri
  • Neapolitan: sapere
  • Sicilian: sapiri
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: savì, savei, savé
    • Ligurian: savéi
    • Lombard: savei, savè, saì
    • Piedmontese: savej
  • Friulian: savê
  • Istriot: savì
  • Romansch: savair, saver, saveir
  • Venetian: saver
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: saber
  • Franco-Provençal: savêr, chair (Valaisan), saveir, saer, saeir (Valdôtain)
  • Old French: savoir (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: saber (several dialects)

    Limousin: sapcher

    Provençal: sacher

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sapere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 938

Further reading

• “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sapio 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)
• sapio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[7], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a man of sense, judgment: sapere (Off. 2. 14. 48)