# sapio
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of sapiosexual.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

sapio (plural sapios)
* (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, 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, 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, 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)
* (Internet slang) Sapiosexual.
** 2022 July 9, u/summerpassingby, “Never met a smart "sapiosexual"”, in Reddit‎, 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, 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, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:I'm so sapio, the sec someone come across dumb, I'm turned off lol.

## Italian
### Etymology

Compare saggio and savio, from Vulgar Latin *sapium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsa.pjo/
* Rhymes: -apjo
* Hyphenation: sà‧pio

### Adjective

sapio (feminine sapia, masculine plural sapi, feminine plural sapie) (Old Italian)
* wise
** 1250s [12th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 120:Pelias avenno pagura de Jasone suo nepote, ke era molto sapio et ardito, […] (Rome)[original: Pelias, timens ne Iason nepos eius sibi regnum auferret, eo quod vir probus erat et strenuus, […]]Pelias, being afraid of his nephew Jason, who was very wise and brave, […]

### Noun

sapio m (plural sapi) (Old Italian)
* wise man, sage
** 1250s [12th century], anonymous translator, Storie de Troja et de Roma, translation of Multae historiae et Troianae et Romanae by anonymous (in Medieval Latin); collected in “Liber Ystoriarum Romanorum - Storie de Troja et de Roma”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 123:incontenente Priamus adonao tutti li filii […] et tutti li altri soi filii ke avea de soe concove, et tutti li sapii et tutti li granni de Troja. co li quali abe consilio se devesse commenzare guerra co li Greci. (Rome)[original: qui, congregatis filiis […] et aliis filiis quos ex concubinis generaverat, et omnibus sapientibus totius Graeciae, maioribus natu precipue; quorum omnium utrum bellum Graecis indicere]Immediately, Priam gathered all his children […] and all the other children of his he had from his concubines, and all the wise men and great men of Troy, whom he consulted about whether or not he was to wage war against the Greeks.

### References

* “sapio”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 17 robb–schi, UTET, 1994, page 556

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* *sapiō, *sapēre (Late Latin)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsa.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠äpioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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
* (intransitive) to have taste, have flavour
* (transitive) to taste of, taste like, smack of, have a flavour of
    Synonym: lambō
* (figurative, intransitive) to have good taste; have sense, discernment; be sensible, discreet, prudent, wise
    Synonyms: sentiō, percipiō
* (figurative, transitive) to know, understand (mostly with general objects)
* (Early Medieval Latin) to know how to do; to be able to do

#### 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
** Venetan: 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, London: Macmillan and Co. to be a man of sense, judgment: sapere (Off. 2. 14. 48)