foveo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *foɣʷeō, from earlier *θoɣʷejō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰogʷʰ-éye-, causative verb from *dʰegʷʰ-. The perfect form may have evolved from Proto-Italic *fowe-wai.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.we.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ve.o]

Verb

foveō (present infinitive fovēre, perfect active fōvī, supine fōtum); second conjugation

1. to warm, keep warm
2. to nurture, cherish, foster

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāscor, pāscō, sustentō, alō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.443:

     quae facitis nīdōs et plūmīs ōva fovētis

     [You birds], who build nests, and with soft feathers nurture your eggs

3. (medicine, of a wound) to foment, bathe
4. to favor, encourage, comfort

   Synonym: cōnsōlō

5. to support, assist

   Synonyms: adiūtō, iuvō, adiuvō, assistō, succurrō, sublevō, prōficiō, prōsum, faveō, adsum

   Antonym: officiō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of foveō (second conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	foveō		fovēs		fovet		fovēmus		fovētis		fovent
	imperfect	fovēbam		fovēbās		fovēbat		fovēbāmus		fovēbātis		fovēbant
	future	fovēbō		fovēbis		fovēbit		fovēbimus		fovēbitis		fovēbunt
	perfect	fōvī		fōvistī		fōvit		fōvimus		fōvistis		fōvērunt, fōvēre
	pluperfect	fōveram		fōverās		fōverat		fōverāmus		fōverātis		fōverant
	future perfect	fōverō		fōveris		fōverit		fōverimus		fōveritis		fōverint
passive	present	foveor		fovēris, fovēre		fovētur		fovēmur		fovēminī		foventur
	imperfect	fovēbar		fovēbāris, fovēbāre		fovēbātur		fovēbāmur		fovēbāminī		fovēbantur
	future	fovēbor		fovēberis, fovēbere		fovēbitur		fovēbimur		fovēbiminī		fovēbuntur
	perfect	fōtus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fōtus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fōtus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	foveam		foveās		foveat		foveāmus		foveātis		foveant
	imperfect	fovērem		fovērēs		fovēret		fovērēmus		fovērētis		fovērent
	perfect	fōverim		fōverīs		fōverit		fōverīmus		fōverītis		fōverint
	pluperfect	fōvissem		fōvissēs		fōvisset		fōvissēmus		fōvissētis		fōvissent
passive	present	fovear		foveāris, foveāre		foveātur		foveāmur		foveāminī		foveantur
	imperfect	fovērer		fovērēris, fovērēre		fovērētur		fovērēmur		fovērēminī		fovērentur
	perfect	fōtus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	fōtus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		fovē		—		—		fovēte		—
	future	—		fovētō		fovētō		—		fovētōte		foventō
passive	present	—		fovēre		—		—		fovēminī		—
	future	—		fovētor		fovētor		—		—		foventor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		fovēre			fovērī			fovēns			—
future		fōtūrum esse			fōtum īrī			fōtūrus			fovendus
perfect		fōvisse			fōtum esse			—			fōtus
future perfect		—			fōtum fore			—			—
perfect potential		fōtūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		fovendī		fovendō		fovendum		fovendō		fōtum		fōtū

Derived terms

• cōnfoveō
• effoveō
• fōmentum
• fōtus
• fovēla
• perfoveō
• refoveō

Related terms

• fōmes

References

• “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• foveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238