tolero

See also: toleró

Catalan

Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative of tolerar

Galician

Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative of tolerar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tolazāō, from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, carry”). Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), τολμάω (tolmáō, “to carry, bear”), τελαμών (telamṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला (tulā, “balance”), तुलयति (tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin tollō (“to bear, support”), tulī (“I bore”), lātus (“borne”), tellūs (“bearing earth”), Old English þolian (“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, “I allow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈto.le.roː/, [ˈt̪ɔɫ̪ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.le.ro/, [ˈt̪ɔːlero]

Verb

tolerō (present infinitive tolerāre, perfect active tolerāvī, supine tolerātum); first conjugation

1. to bear, endure, tolerate, put up with, support

   Synonyms: patiō, sufferō, subeō, perferō, patior, recipiō, accipiō, ferō, dūrō, sustineō, sustentō

2. to sustain (with the notion of barely doing so)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tolerō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	tolerō	tolerās	tolerat	tolerāmus	tolerātis	tolerant
	imperfect	tolerābam	tolerābās	tolerābat	tolerābāmus	tolerābātis	tolerābant
	future	tolerābō	tolerābis	tolerābit	tolerābimus	tolerābitis	tolerābunt
	perfect	tolerāvī	tolerāvistī, tolerāstī1	tolerāvit, tolerāt1	tolerāvimus, tolerāmus1	tolerāvistis, tolerāstis1	tolerāvērunt, tolerāvēre, tolerārunt1
	pluperfect	tolerāveram, tolerāram1	tolerāverās, tolerārās1	tolerāverat, tolerārat1	tolerāverāmus, tolerārāmus1	tolerāverātis, tolerārātis1	tolerāverant, tolerārant1
	future perfect	tolerāverō, tolerārō1	tolerāveris, tolerāris1	tolerāverit, tolerārit1	tolerāverimus, tolerārimus1	tolerāveritis, tolerāritis1	tolerāverint, tolerārint1
passive	present	toleror	tolerāris, tolerāre	tolerātur	tolerāmur	tolerāminī	tolerantur
	imperfect	tolerābar	tolerābāris, tolerābāre	tolerābātur	tolerābāmur	tolerābāminī	tolerābantur
	future	tolerābor	tolerāberis, tolerābere	tolerābitur	tolerābimur	tolerābiminī	tolerābuntur
	perfect	tolerātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	tolerātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	tolerātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	tolerem	tolerēs	toleret	tolerēmus	tolerētis	tolerent
	imperfect	tolerārem	tolerārēs	tolerāret	tolerārēmus	tolerārētis	tolerārent
	perfect	tolerāverim, tolerārim1	tolerāverīs, tolerārīs1	tolerāverit, tolerārit1	tolerāverīmus, tolerārīmus1	tolerāverītis, tolerārītis1	tolerāverint, tolerārint1
	pluperfect	tolerāvissem, tolerāssem1	tolerāvissēs, tolerāssēs1	tolerāvisset, tolerāsset1	tolerāvissēmus, tolerāssēmus1	tolerāvissētis, tolerāssētis1	tolerāvissent, tolerāssent1
passive	present	tolerer	tolerēris, tolerēre	tolerētur	tolerēmur	tolerēminī	tolerentur
	imperfect	tolerārer	tolerārēris, tolerārēre	tolerārētur	tolerārēmur	tolerārēminī	tolerārentur
	perfect	tolerātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	tolerātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	tolerā	—	—	tolerāte	—
	future	—	tolerātō	tolerātō	—	tolerātōte	tolerantō
passive	present	—	tolerāre	—	—	tolerāminī	—
	future	—	tolerātor	tolerātor	—	—	tolerantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		tolerāre	tolerāvisse, tolerāsse1	tolerātūrum esse	tolerārī	tolerātum esse	tolerātum īrī
participles		tolerāns	—	tolerātūrus	—	tolerātus	tolerandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		tolerandī	tolerandō	tolerandum	tolerandō	tolerātum	tolerātū

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants

• Catalan: tolerar
• Dutch: tolereren
• English: tolerate
• French: tolérer
• Galician: tolerar
• Ido: tolerar
• Italian: tollerare
• Portuguese: tolerar
• Romanian: tolera
• Spanish: tolerar
• German: tolerieren
• Danish: tolerere
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tolerere
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tolerera, tolerere
• Swedish: tolerera

References

• “tolero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tolero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tolero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bear the winter: hiemem tolerare
    
  • to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
    
  • to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
    
  • to endure a life of privation: vitam (inopem) tolerare (B. G. 7. 77)
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɾu

Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative of tolerar

Spanish

Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative of tolerar