subvenio

From sub- (“under, up towards”) +‎ veniō (“come”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊbˈwɛ.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [subˈvɛː.ni.o]

subveniō (present infinitive subvenīre, perfect active subvēnī, supine subventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to support, assist, come to the aid of, rescue
   • 66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 4:

     Nōn est nostrī ingenī, vestrī auxilī est, iūdicēs, huius innocentiae sīc in hāc calamitōsā fāmā quasi in aliquā perniciōsissimā flammā atque in commūnī incendiō subvenīre.

     • 1856 translation by C. D. Yonge

       It is a matter requiring your aid, O judges; it becomes you to come to the assistance of the innocence of this man attacked by such a ruinous calumny, as you would in the case of a destructive fire or of a general conflagration.

   • 13th c., Lucas of Tuy, De Altera Vita, prologue:

     videntur in parte favere temerario studio falsitatis […] asserentes praelatos Ecclesiae Christi animabus mortuorum fidelium remissionum indulgentiis non posse ullatenus subvenire

     They [heretics] seem, in part, to favour a reckless zeal for falsehood […] asserting that the prelates of Christ's church cannot help, to any extent, the souls of the faithful dead with sin-forgiving indulgences

2. to come up, come to mind, occur to

• In Classical Latin, subveniō was intransitive, with its object expressed in the dative case.
• In Medieval Latin, subveniō was sometimes transitive.

• “subvenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subvenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subvenio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.