commendo
See also: commendò
Italian
Verb
commendo
- first-person singular present indicative of commendare
Latin
Etymology
From con- + mandō (“commit, intrust, enjoin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈmɛn.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈmɛn̪.d̪o]
Verb
commendō (present infinitive commendāre, perfect active commendāvī, supine commendātum); first conjugation
- to commend, entrust to, commit
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.53–54:
- “ipse mihi Māvors ‘commendō moenia’ dīxit
‘haec tibi. tū pollēns urbe nepōtis eris.’”- “Mars himself said to me, ‘I entrust these walls to you. You will be mighty in the city of your grandson.’”
(The poetic voice is that of Juno (mythology); “Mavors” is an ancient form of the name of Juno’s son, Mars (mythology); Juno’s grandson is Romulus.)
- “Mars himself said to me, ‘I entrust these walls to you. You will be mighty in the city of your grandson.’”
- “ipse mihi Māvors ‘commendō moenia’ dīxit
- to recommend
Conjugation
Conjugation of commendō (first conjugation)
Descendants
- Aromanian: cumãndu, cumãndari
- Asturian: camentar
- Catalan: comandar
- French: commander
- Friulian: comandâ
- Italian: comandare, commendare
- Occitan: comandar
- Neapolitan: cumannà
- Portuguese: comandar, comendar, encomendar
- Romanian: comânda, comândare, comanda, comandare
- Sardinian: cumandai, cumandare, cumandhare, cumannare
- Sicilian: cumannari
- Spanish: comandar, comendar, encomendar
- Venetan: comandar
- Welsh: cymyn
References
- “commendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem sempiternae gloriae commendare
- to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
- to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare
- to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem sempiternae gloriae commendare
- commendo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “commend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.