Reconstruction:Latin/nuo
Latin
Etymology
Unattested verb only found in compounds (see derived terms below), from Proto-Italic *nuō, from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νεύω (neúō, “to nod”), Sanskrit नवते (návate, “to move”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnu.oː/
Verb
*nuō (present infinitive *nuere, perfect active *nuī, supine *nūtum); third conjugation
- to nod
Inflection
Conjugation of *nuō (third conjugation)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | *nuō | *nuis | *nuit | *nuimus | *nuitis | *nuunt | ||||||
| imperfect | *nuēbam | *nuēbās | *nuēbat | *nuēbāmus | *nuēbātis | *nuēbant | |||||||
| future | *nuam | *nuēs | *nuet | *nuēmus | *nuētis | *nuent | |||||||
| perfect | *nuī | *nuistī | *nuit | *nuimus | *nuistis | *nuērunt, *nuēre | |||||||
| pluperfect | *nueram | *nuerās | *nuerat | *nuerāmus | *nuerātis | *nuerant | |||||||
| future perfect | *nuerō | *nueris | *nuerit | *nuerimus | *nueritis | *nuerint | |||||||
| passive | present | *nuor | *nueris, *nuere |
*nuitur | *nuimur | *nuiminī | *nuuntur | ||||||
| imperfect | *nuēbar | *nuēbāris, *nuēbāre |
*nuēbātur | *nuēbāmur | *nuēbāminī | *nuēbantur | |||||||
| future | *nuar | *nuēris, *nuēre |
*nuētur | *nuēmur | *nuēminī | *nuentur | |||||||
| perfect | *nūtus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | *nūtus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | *nūtus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | *nuam | *nuās | *nuat | *nuāmus | *nuātis | *nuant | ||||||
| imperfect | *nuerem | *nuerēs | *nueret | *nuerēmus | *nuerētis | *nuerent | |||||||
| perfect | *nuerim | *nuerīs | *nuerit | *nuerīmus | *nuerītis | *nuerint | |||||||
| pluperfect | *nuissem | *nuissēs | *nuisset | *nuissēmus | *nuissētis | *nuissent | |||||||
| passive | present | *nuar | *nuāris, *nuāre |
*nuātur | *nuāmur | *nuāminī | *nuantur | ||||||
| imperfect | *nuerer | *nuerēris, *nuerēre |
*nuerētur | *nuerēmur | *nuerēminī | *nuerentur | |||||||
| perfect | *nūtus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | *nūtus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | *nue | — | — | *nuite | — | ||||||
| future | — | *nuitō | *nuitō | — | *nuitōte | *nuuntō | |||||||
| passive | present | — | *nuere | — | — | *nuiminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | *nuitor | *nuitor | — | — | *nuuntor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | *nuere | *nuī | *nuēns | — | |||||||||
| future | *nūtūrum esse | *nūtum īrī | *nūtūrus | *nuendus | |||||||||
| perfect | *nuisse | *nūtum esse | — | *nūtus | |||||||||
| future perfect | — | *nūtum fore | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | *nūtūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| *nuendī | *nuendō | *nuendum | *nuendō | *nūtum | *nūtū | ||||||||
Derived terms
References
- “annuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-nuō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 419-20