benedico
Italian
Verb
benedico
- first-person singular present indicative of benedire
- first-person singular present indicative of benedicere
Latin
Etymology 1
From bene (“well”) + dīcō (“speak”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /be.neˈdiː.koː/, [bɛnɛˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /be.neˈdi.ko/, [beneˈd̪iːko]
Verb
benedīcō (present infinitive benedīcere, perfect active benedīxī, supine benedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- I speak well of someone, commend.
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) I bless, praise.
- Benedicite, omnia opera Domini [1]
- All ye works of the Lord, praise ye the Lord
- Benedicite, omnia opera Domini [1]
Usage notes
This is used as a compound only outside of Classical Latin.
Conjugation
1Archaic.
Antonyms
Descendants
- Corsican: benedì
- Extremaduran: bendizir
- Franco-Provençal: benêtre, benir
- Italian: benedire
- Old French: beneistre, beneïstre, beneir, beneïr
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: bendicir
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: bendicir
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bẽeizer, bẽezer
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: benedíxi, benedíxiri, beneíchere, beníchere
- Venetian: benedir
- → Albanian: bekoj
- → English: benedict
- → Middle High German: benedīen, benedīgende
- German: benedeien
- → Old Irish: bennachaid, bendachaid
- → Portuguese: bendizer
- → Welsh: bendithio, benditho, bendigo
Etymology 2
Inflected form of benedicus.
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) benedicō
- dative masculine singular of benedicus
- dative neuter singular of benedicus
- ablative masculine singular of benedicus
- ablative neuter singular of benedicus
References
- “benedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- benedico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- benedico in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016