conquiro
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkʷiː.roː/, [kɔŋˈkʷiːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈkwi.ro/, [koŋˈkwiːro]
Verb edit
conquīrō (present infinitive conquīrere, perfect active conquīsīvī, supine conquīsītum); third conjugation
- to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of
- to collect, bring together
- to investigate, search out
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- “conquiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conquiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conquiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.