foveo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *foɣʷeō, from earlier *θoɣʷejō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰogʷʰ-éye-, causative verb from *dʰegʷʰ-.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.u̯e.oː/, [ˈfou̯eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ve.o/, [ˈfɔːveo]
Verb edit
foveō (present infinitive fovēre, perfect active fōvī, supine fōtum); second conjugation
- to warm, keep warm
- to nurture, cherish, foster
- (medicine, of a wound) to foment, bathe
- to favor, encourage, comfort
- Synonym: cōnsōlō
- to support, assist
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References edit
- “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- foveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN