adnuo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈad.nu.oː/, [ˈänːuoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈad.nu.o/, [ˈäd̪nuo]
Verb
adnuō (present infinitive adnuere, perfect active adnuī, supine adnūtum); third conjugation
- I nod assent, approve, consent, allow.
- Adnuit Coeptis — “[he] approved/approves the undertakings.”
- I favour or designate with a nod.
- Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus adnue coeptis. — “Jupiter Almighty, favour [my] audacious undertakings”
- I promise, grant.
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References
- “adnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers