aggredior
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ad- (“to”) + gradior (“step, walk”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aɡˈɡre.di.or/, [äɡˈɡrɛd̪iɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aɡˈɡre.di.or/, [äɡˈɡrɛːd̪ior]
Verb
aggredior (present infinitive aggredī, perfect active aggressus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent
- I advance or go to or towards, approach.
- I approach, address, apply to, solicit.
- I attack, assault, beset, aggress.
- I undertake, begin, set about, assume, attempt, try.
- I lay claim to, seize.
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Descendants
- Luxembourgish: agresséieren
- Portuguese: agredir
- Spanish: agredir
References
- “aggredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aggredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aggredior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to prepare to do a thing: aggredi ad aliquid faciendum
- to take a task in hand, engage upon it: opus aggredi
- to come forward to make a speech; to address the house: aggredi ad dicendum
- to undertake a case: ad causam aggredi or accedere
- to attack the enemy: aggredi hostem
- to attack the enemy in the rear: aversos hostes aggredi
- to prepare to do a thing: aggredi ad aliquid faciendum