Home › Words › P › poculentpoculentpoculent means fit for drink.EtymologyFrom Latin poculentus, from poculum (“cup”).adjFit for drink.e.g.“Some of these herbs, which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops and broom.” — 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted nounA drink; something drunk.e.g.“[…] the minute attention which the first physicians paid to the esculents and poculents of their patients […]” — 1842, John Fletcher, John James Drysdale, Elements of General Pathology, page 467:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).