aboleo

Latin

Etymology

Probably from ab- (“from, away from”) +‎ Proto-Italic *oleō (“to wipe out, destroy”, causative of *olō), ultimate from Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁-. See also Ancient Greek ἀπόλλυμι (apóllumi, “destroy utterly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈbɔ.ɫe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈbɔː.le.o]

Verb

aboleō (present infinitive abolēre, perfect active abolēvī, supine abolitum); second conjugation

1. to retard, check the growth of
2. to destroy, efface, terminate

   Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, diruo, dēstruō, perdō, exscindō, accido, tollo, occido, populor, interimō, absūmō, impellō, sepeliō, trucīdō, perimō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.497–498:

     “[...] abolēre nefandī / cūncta virī monumenta iuvat, mōnstratque sacerdōs.”

     “It is pleasing to destroy all reminders of the accursed man, and the priestess shows [us how].”

3. (passive voice, intransitive) to die, decay

   Synonyms: morior, intereo, exspiro, defungor, deficio, decedo

4. to abolish

   Synonyms: abrogō, tollō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of aboleō (second conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	aboleō		abolēs		abolet		abolēmus		abolētis		abolent
	imperfect	abolēbam		abolēbās		abolēbat		abolēbāmus		abolēbātis		abolēbant
	future	abolēbō		abolēbis		abolēbit		abolēbimus		abolēbitis		abolēbunt
	perfect	abolēvī		abolēvistī		abolēvit		abolēvimus		abolēvistis		abolēvērunt, abolēvēre
	pluperfect	abolēveram		abolēverās		abolēverat		abolēverāmus		abolēverātis		abolēverant
	future perfect	abolēverō		abolēveris		abolēverit		abolēverimus		abolēveritis		abolēverint
passive	present	aboleor		abolēris, abolēre		abolētur		abolēmur		abolēminī		abolentur
	imperfect	abolēbar		abolēbāris, abolēbāre		abolēbātur		abolēbāmur		abolēbāminī		abolēbantur
	future	abolēbor		abolēberis, abolēbere		abolēbitur		abolēbimur		abolēbiminī		abolēbuntur
	perfect	abolitus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	abolitus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	abolitus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	aboleam		aboleās		aboleat		aboleāmus		aboleātis		aboleant
	imperfect	abolērem		abolērēs		abolēret		abolērēmus		abolērētis		abolērent
	perfect	abolēverim		abolēverīs		abolēverit		abolēverīmus		abolēverītis		abolēverint
	pluperfect	abolēvissem		abolēvissēs		abolēvisset		abolēvissēmus		abolēvissētis		abolēvissent
passive	present	abolear		aboleāris, aboleāre		aboleātur		aboleāmur		aboleāminī		aboleantur
	imperfect	abolērer		abolērēris, abolērēre		abolērētur		abolērēmur		abolērēminī		abolērentur
	perfect	abolitus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	abolitus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		abolē		—		—		abolēte		—
	future	—		abolētō		abolētō		—		abolētōte		abolentō
passive	present	—		abolēre		—		—		abolēminī		—
	future	—		abolētor		abolētor		—		—		abolentor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		abolēre			abolērī			abolēns			—
future		abolitūrum esse			abolitum īrī			abolitūrus			abolendus
perfect		abolēvisse			abolitum esse			—			abolitus
future perfect		—			abolitum fore			—			—
perfect potential		abolitūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		abolendī		abolendō		abolendum		abolendō		abolitum		abolitū

Derived terms

• abolefaciō
• abolēscō
• abolitiō
• abolitor

Related terms

• adoleō
• *oleō

Descendants

• → Catalan: abolir
• → Galician: abolir
• → Italian: abolire
• → Middle French: abolir
  • French: abolir
    • → Romanian: aboli
  • → Middle English: abolisshen
    • English: abolish
• → Norwegian Bokmål: abolere
• → Portuguese: abolir
• → Spanish: abolir

References

• “aboleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aboleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aboleo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit