aboleo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Probably from ab- (“from, away from”) + *oleō (“increase, grow”), but cf. Ancient Greek ἀπόλλυμι (apóllumi, “destroy utterly”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbo.le.oː/, [äˈbɔɫ̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈbo.le.o/, [äˈbɔːleo]
Verb edit
aboleō (present infinitive abolēre, perfect active abolēvī, supine abolitum); second conjugation
- to retard, check the growth of
- to destroy, efface, terminate
- (in passive, intransitive) to die, decay
- to abolish
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References edit
- “aboleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aboleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aboleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
- the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit