aveo

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LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.we.oː/

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Italic *awēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Sanskrit अवति (avati, “he consumes, satisfies”) and Cornish awell (“will”).

VerbEdit

aveō (present infinitive avēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine forms

1. I desire, wish or long for, crave.

InflectionEdit

• This verb has no known third or fourth principal parts, and so has an incomplete conjugation.

Conjugation of aveo (second conjugation, defective, 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
		nominative	genitive	dative/ablative	accusative	accusative	ablative
		avēre	avendī	avendō	avendum	—	—

Derived termsEdit

• avaritia
• avārus
• avēns
• aventer

• avēre iubeō
• avidus

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

aveō (present infinitive avēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine forms

1. I am well or fare well.

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.

InflectionEdit

• Only attested forms are the present active infinitive, avēre, and the imperatives avē, avēte and avētō.

Alternative formsEdit

• haveō

Derived termsEdit

• avē

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “aveo”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “aveo” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)