admoveo
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /adˈmo.u̯e.oː/, [äd̪ˈmou̯eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /adˈmo.ve.o/, [äd̪ˈmɔːveo]
Verb edit
admoveō (present infinitive admovēre, perfect active admōvī, supine admōtum); second conjugation
- to move, bring, conduct, lead or carry someone or something to or toward; apply to
- to move or bring someone or something near to another; reconcile
- (military) to move or bring up or forward, call upon
- (figuratively) to apply, attend or direct to or toward
- (with aurem or aures) to lend an ear to
- (with manum or manus) to put one's hand to an undertaking
- (with manum or manus) to lay violent hands upon; attack, assault
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- English: admove
References edit
- “admoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “admoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- admoveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere
- to have a person tortured: alicui admovere tormenta
- to advance on..: exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
- to apply scaling-ladders: scalas admovere (B. C. 3. 63)
- to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere