compleo
LatinEdit
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EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.ple.oː/, [ˈkɔmpɫ̪eoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.ple.o/, [ˈkɔmpleo]
VerbEdit
compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation
- I fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete.
- I cover, overwhelm.
- I occupy, set up a garrison (military)
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 12:
- inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset
- occupied the ground between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline
- inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset
- (with food or drink) I fill, sate; satisfy.
- I finish, complete.
- (of a promise) I fulfil.
ConjugationEdit
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
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ReferencesEdit
- “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
- to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti