battuo

Latin

Alternative forms

• battō
• bātuō

Etymology

Unknown, rare in literary Latin. Perhaps from Gaulish or Germanic, ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to stab, dig”), or a separate root *bʰat- (“to hit”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Welsh bathu (“beat”), Old English beadu (“battle”), and the latter half of Latin andabata, as well as perhaps Sanskrit भल्ल (bhalla, “arrowhead, missile”). Doublet of battō.

Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *kopati (cognate with Latvian kapāt).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbat.tu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbat.tu.o]

Verb

battuō (present infinitive battuere, perfect active battuī); third conjugation, no supine stem

1. (very rare) to beat, hit, pound, beat up, strike
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 2.8.60
   • c. 400 CE, Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis 36
   • 230 CE, De re culinaria 4.2.108
2. to fence, play fencing; to fight
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Calig 54
   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.22.4
3. to bang (have sex with)

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Inflection

   Conjugation of battuō (third conjugation, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	battuō		battuis		battuit		battuimus		battuitis		battuunt
	imperfect	battuēbam		battuēbās		battuēbat		battuēbāmus		battuēbātis		battuēbant
	future	battuam		battuēs		battuet		battuēmus		battuētis		battuent
	perfect	battuī		battuistī		battuit		battuimus		battuistis		battuērunt, battuēre
	pluperfect	battueram		battuerās		battuerat		battuerāmus		battuerātis		battuerant
	future perfect	battuerō		battueris		battuerit		battuerimus		battueritis		battuerint
passive	present	battuor		battueris, battuere		battuitur		battuimur		battuiminī		battuuntur
	imperfect	battuēbar		battuēbāris, battuēbāre		battuēbātur		battuēbāmur		battuēbāminī		battuēbantur
	future	battuar		battuēris, battuēre		battuētur		battuēmur		battuēminī		battuentur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	battuam		battuās		battuat		battuāmus		battuātis		battuant
	imperfect	battuerem		battuerēs		battueret		battuerēmus		battuerētis		battuerent
	perfect	battuerim		battuerīs		battuerit		battuerīmus		battuerītis		battuerint
	pluperfect	battuissem		battuissēs		battuisset		battuissēmus		battuissētis		battuissent
passive	present	battuar		battuāris, battuāre		battuātur		battuāmur		battuāminī		battuantur
	imperfect	battuerer		battuerēris, battuerēre		battuerētur		battuerēmur		battuerēminī		battuerentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		battue		—		—		battuite		—
	future	—		battuitō		battuitō		—		battuitōte		battuuntō
passive	present	—		battuere		—		—		battuiminī		—
	future	—		battuitor		battuitor		—		—		battuuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		battuere			battuī			battuēns			—
future		—			—			—			battuendus
perfect		battuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		battuendī		battuendō		battuendum		battuendō		—		—

Derived terms

• battuālia (see there for further descendants)
• battuārium

Descendants

(Note: see battō.)

Further reading

• “battuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “battuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “battuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.