compleo
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkom.ple.oː/, [ˈkɔmpɫ̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.ple.o/, [ˈkɔmpleo]
Verb
[edit]compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation
- to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete
- to cover, overwhelm
- to occupy, set up a garrison (military)
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, 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) to fill, sate; satisfy
- to finish, complete
- (of a promise) to fulfil
Conjugation
[edit]1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](All having the sense of 'finish, complete')
- Italian: compiere
- Neapolitan: cunchiere (Calabria)
- Old French: compler
- Old Sassarese: clomper
- Sassarese: zompere
Reflexes of an assumed variant *complīre:[1]
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: cumpli
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: (conserv. outcomes of /pl-/)
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: lompiri (Campidanese)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *accomplīre
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “complere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 981
- ^ Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 167
Further reading
[edit]- “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