prostituo
Esperanto
Etymology
From prostitui (“to prostitute”) + -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prostiˈtuo/
- Rhymes: -uo
- Hyphenation: pros‧ti‧tu‧o
Noun
prostituo (uncountable, accusative prostituon)
- prostitution
- Synonym: prostituado
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + statuō (“set up, erect”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːsˈtɪ.tu.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [prosˈt̪iː.t̪u.o]
Verb
prōstituō (present infinitive prōstituere, perfect active prōstituī, supine prōstitūtum); third conjugation
- to set up in public
- to prostitute
- to dishonor
Conjugation
Conjugation of prōstituō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: prostituir
- → Danish: prostituere
- → French: prostituer
- → Italian: prostituire
- → Norwegian Bokmål: prostituere
- → Portuguese: prostituir
- → Romanian: prostitua
- Sicilian: prustituiri
- → Spanish: prostituir
References
- “prostituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prostituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prostituo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
prostituo
- first-person singular present indicative of prostituir