coeo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.e.oː/, [ˈkoeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.e.o/, [ˈkɔːeo]
Verb edit
coeō (present infinitive coīre, perfect active coiī or coīvī, supine coitum); irregular conjugation, irregular
- to assemble, meet, come together
- in triclinio coeam, in cubiculo nolam ― I meet (you) at the table but I won’t at the dormitory
- to encounter, come up against
- to copulate, have sex
- to join, ally with
- to unite, come together as a whole
- to mass together, ball up, curdle
Conjugation edit
Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The second principal part is most often contracted to coiī, but occasionally appears as coīvī.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Middle French: cohir
References edit
- “coeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers