invenio
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- (“after”) + veniō (“come”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈwɛ.ni.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈvɛː.ni.o]
Verb
[edit]inveniō (present infinitive invenīre, perfect active invēnī, supine inventum); fourth conjugation
- to find
- to discover, find out, learn
- to come upon, meet with
- Synonyms: occurrō, congredior, obeō, prōcēdō, offendō
- to invent, to devise
- Synonyms: māchinor, comminīscor, struō
- to get, acquire, earn
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of inveniō (fourth conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: imbennere
- Italo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *invenūtus (participle)
- Old French: envenguz (hapax)
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭnvĕnīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 788
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “imbènnere”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 242
Further reading
[edit]- “invenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “invenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- invenio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.