instauro

See also: instauró and instaurò

Catalan

Verb

instauro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of instaurar

Italian

Verb

instauro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of instaurare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ *staurō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro-, from *steh₂-. The first meaning, which was also continued in the Romance languages, was "erect", "establish". The meaning "renew" arose by applying this meaning to a structure whose stability has ceased or to an event which has ended. Compare German in Stand setzen (to repair), literally "to set in stand". A semantical influence of the related restaurō (to restore) (see there for close cognates) is also likely.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

īnstaurō (present infinitive īnstaurāre, perfect active īnstaurāvī, supine īnstaurātum); first conjugation

  1. to set up, erect, make
  2. to repeat, start, or perform anew or afresh; renew (after a period of disuse), resume
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.63-64:
      [...] īnstauratque diem dōnīs, pecudumque reclūsīs
      pectoribus inhiāns spīrantia cōnsulit exta.
      And [Dido] repeats [the ritual] with [divine] offerings [each] day. And poring over the still-throbbing entrails within the just-opened breasts of [sacrificial] animals, she takes counsel [therein].
      (Dido — acting as a haruspex — keeps re-enacting the extispicium as if there had been an error, a practice known as instauratio.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: instaurar
  • French: instaurer
  • Galician: instaurar
  • Italian: instaurare
  • Old French: estorer
  • Portuguese: instaurar
  • Romanian: instaura
  • Spanish: instaurar

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “īnstaurō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 305

Further reading

  • instauro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • instauro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • instauro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to revive public games: ludos instaurare

Portuguese

Verb

instauro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of instaurar

Spanish

Verb

instauro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of instaurar