subvenio
Latin
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From sub- (“under, up towards”) + veniō (“come”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊbˈwɛ.ni.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [subˈvɛː.ni.o]
Verb
[edit]subveniō (present infinitive subvenīre, perfect active subvēnī, supine subventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to support, assist, come to the aid of, rescue
- 66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 4:
- Nōn est nostrī ingenī, vestrī auxilī est, iūdicēs, huius innocentiae sīc in hāc calamitōsā fāmā quasi in aliquā perniciōsissimā flammā atque in commūnī incendiō subvenīre.
- 1856 translation by C. D. Yonge
- It is a matter requiring your aid, O judges; it becomes you to come to the assistance of the innocence of this man attacked by such a ruinous calumny, as you would in the case of a destructive fire or of a general conflagration.
- 1856 translation by C. D. Yonge
- Nōn est nostrī ingenī, vestrī auxilī est, iūdicēs, huius innocentiae sīc in hāc calamitōsā fāmā quasi in aliquā perniciōsissimā flammā atque in commūnī incendiō subvenīre.
- 13th c., Lucas of Tuy, De Altera Vita, prologue:
- videntur in parte favere temerario studio falsitatis […] asserentes praelatos Ecclesiae Christi animabus mortuorum fidelium remissionum indulgentiis non posse ullatenus subvenire
- They [heretics] seem, in part, to favour a reckless zeal for falsehood […] asserting that the prelates of Christ's church cannot help, to any extent, the souls of the faithful dead with sin-forgiving indulgences
- to come up, come to mind, occur to
Usage notes
[edit]- In Classical Latin, subveniō was intransitive, with its object expressed in the dative case.
- In Medieval Latin, subveniō was sometimes transitive.
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- “subvenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subvenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “subvenio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₂-
- Latin terms prefixed with sub-
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