commoveo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Italic *kommoweō, from *moweō. Given the possible cognate in Umbrian comhota, the Proto-Italic form can be reconstructed. By surface analysis, con- (“with, together”) + moveō (“move”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈmɔ.we.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈmɔː.ve.o]
Verb
commoveō (present infinitive commovēre, perfect active commōvī, supine commōtum); second conjugation
- to move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate
- to remove something from somewhere, carry away, displace
- (by extension) to start, set in motion, stimulate, begin, move
- (figuratively) to drive back, dislodge, refute, confute
- (figuratively) to throw into disorder, unbalance, unsettle, disturb
- (figuratively) to excite, rouse, stir up, affect, influence, produce, generate
Conjugation
Conjugation of commoveō (second conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: commoure
- English: commove
- Galician: conmover
- Italian: commuovere
- Portuguese: comover
- Sicilian: cummòviri
- Spanish: conmover
References
- “commoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commoveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be moved by a thing: aliqua re moveri, commoveri
- to touch a person's heart, move him: alicuius animum commovere
- to cause a person pain: dolorem alicui facere, afferre, commovere
- to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationem sui facere, commovere
- to excite some one's pity: misericordiam alicui commovere
- to be moved by a thing: aliqua re moveri, commoveri