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

Verb

madeō (present infinitive madēre, perfect active maduī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to be wet or moist (with ablative); drip or flow (with ablative)
  2. to be drunk or intoxicated (with ablative)
  3. to be softened by boiling; to be sodden or boiled
  4. 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

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.