foveo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *foɣʷeō, from earlier *θoɣʷejō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰogʷʰ-éye-, causative verb from *dʰegʷʰ-. The perfect form may have evolved from Proto-Italic *fowe-wai.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɔ.we.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔː.ve.o]
Verb
foveō (present infinitive fovēre, perfect active fōvī, supine fōtum); second conjugation
- to warm, keep warm
- to nurture, cherish, foster
- (medicine, of a wound) to foment, bathe
- to favor, encourage, comfort
- Synonym: cōnsōlō
- to support, assist
Conjugation
Conjugation of foveō (second conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- foveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238