promoveo
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːˈmɔ.we.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [proˈmɔː.ve.o]
Verb
prōmoveō (present infinitive prōmovēre, perfect active prōmōvī, supine prōmōtum); second conjugation
- to move forward, cause to advance, push onward, propel, advance
- to extend, enlarge, increase
- (of a joint) to put out, dislocate, displace
- (figuratively) to bring to pass, effect, accomplish, progress
- (figuratively) to enlarge, increase, promote, advance
- (figuratively) to bring to light, reveal
- (figuratively) to put off, defer, postpone
Conjugation
Conjugation of prōmoveō (second conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: promoure
- Corsican: prumova, prumove
- English: promote
- French: promouvoir
- Friulian: promovi
- Galician: promover
- German: promovieren
- Italian: promuovere
- Occitan: promòure
- Piedmontese: promeuve, promòve
- Portuguese: promover
- Romanian: promova
- Sicilian: prumòviri
- Spanish: promover
References
- “promoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “promoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- promoveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.