madeo
See also: Madeo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *madēō, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”).
See also Ancient Greek μαδάω (madáō), μαστός (mastós), μεστός (mestós), English meat, Sanskrit मदति (mádati), ममत्ति (mamátti), and Old Irish maidid. Compare Serbo-Croatian modar (“blue”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈma.de.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaː.d̪e.o]
Verb
madeō (present infinitive madēre, perfect active maduī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to be wet or moist (with ablative); drip or flow (with ablative)
- to be drunk or intoxicated (with ablative)
- to be softened by boiling; to be sodden or boiled
- to be full (of ablative), overflow (with ablative), abound (in)
Conjugation
- This verb has only limited passive conjugation; only third-person passive forms are attested in surviving sources.
Derived terms
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References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “madeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 358
- “madeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “madeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- madeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.