abequito
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ab- (“from, away from”) + equitō (“ride on horseback”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbe.kʷi.toː/, [äˈbɛkʷɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈbe.kwi.to/, [äˈbɛːkwit̪o]
Verb edit
abequitō (present infinitive abequitāre, perfect active abequitāvī); first conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive (hapax)
- (intransitive) to ride away; leave
- 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 24.31.10:
- Haec cum recitāta essent, cum tantō clāmōre ad arma discursum est ut praetōrēs inter tumultum pavidī abequitāverint Syrācūsās.
- When these had been read out, they rushed to war with such noise that the scared praetors rode away to Syracuse.
- Haec cum recitāta essent, cum tantō clāmōre ad arma discursum est ut praetōrēs inter tumultum pavidī abequitāverint Syrācūsās.
Conjugation edit
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References edit
- “abequito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abequito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abequitō” on page 6/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “abequitō” in volume 1, column 72, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present