aveo
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Italic *awēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy/to consume”). Cognate with Sanskrit अवति (avati, “he consumes, satisfies”) Welsh ewyllys, Cornish awell (“will”).[1]
VerbEdit
aveō (present infinitive avēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem
ConjugationEdit
| Conjugation of aveō (second conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | aveō | avēs | avet | avēmus | avētis | avent |
| imperfect | avēbam | avēbās | avēbat | avēbāmus | avēbātis | avēbant | |
| future | avēbō | avēbis | avēbit | avēbimus | avēbitis | avēbunt | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | aveam | aveās | aveat | aveāmus | aveātis | aveant |
| imperfect | avērem | avērēs | avēret | avērēmus | avērētis | avērent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | avē | — | — | avēte | — |
| future | — | avētō | avētō | — | avētōte | aventō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | avēre | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | avēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| avendī | avendō | avendum | avendō | — | — | ||
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
aveō (present infinitive avēre); second conjugation, highly defective, no perfect or supine stem
Usage notesEdit
From Bréal and Bailly:
Aveo is one of those verbs that has a meaning difficult to precisely define. This is due to numerous semantic shifts that have occurred regarding it. Nevertheless, its original meaning is seemingly "to be alert, to be happy", from whence came the later meaning "to be hungry, to desire".
The rhetorician Claudius Mamertinus, who was once hailed with the words "Ave, consul amplissime," by Emperor Julian, responded to him "Aveo plane Imperator et avebo… cum is avere iubeat, qui iam fecit, ut averem."
The most common meaning of aveo is "to desire", but the adjectival form "avidus" initially meant "who likes to, that which is ported to". Thus the transition to the "hungry, eager" sense was relatively simple. Lucretius employs the adjective "avidus" and the adverb "aveo" in the sense of "large, abundant", reflecting the original use of aveo.
ConjugationEdit
- Only attested forms are the present active infinitive, avēre, and the imperatives avē, avēte and avētō.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- aveo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aveo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aveo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- aveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette