pertineo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From per- (“through”) + teneō (“I hold”). Compare, on composition and meaning, with the later formed perteneō (“to hold constantly”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /perˈti.ne.oː/, [pɛrˈt̪ɪneoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈti.ne.o/, [perˈt̪iːneo]
Verb edit
pertineō (present infinitive pertinēre, perfect active pertinuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to extend, stretch out, reach, matter
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:
- Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones.
- Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.
- Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones.
- to belong, relate, pertain, have concern
- to have a tendency to, tend to
- to be the property of, belong to; to be attributable to
Usage notes edit
The verb takes the preposition ad, very rarely in or per, governing the Accusative.
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References edit
- “pertineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pertineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pertineo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine: haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenum
- to be essentially important to a thing: pertinere ad aliquid
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
- a suspicion falls on some one: suspicio (alicuius rei) cadit in aliquem, pertinet ad aliquem
- the necessaries of life: quae ad victum pertinent
- the territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine: haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenum