compleo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From con- + pleōCategory:Latin terms prefixed with con-#PLEO.
Pronunciation
Verb
compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum)Category:Latin lemmas#COMPLEOCategory:Latin verbs#COMPLEOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#COMPLEOCategory:Pages with entries#COMPLEOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COMPLEO; second conjugation
- to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete
- to cover, overwhelm
- to occupy, set up a garrison (military)
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.12:
- inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset
- occupied the ground between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline
- inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset
- (with food or drink) to fill, sate; satisfy
- to finish, complete
- (of a promise) to fulfil
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
(All having the sense of "finish, complete"):
Reflexes of an assumed variant *complīre:[1]
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: lompiri (Campidanese)
- Balkano-Romance:
- Romanian: cumpli
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: complî
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: (conserv. outcomes of /pl-/)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *accomplīre
- Catalan: acomplir
- Italian: accompire
- Occitan: acomplir
- Old French: acomplir
- Middle French: accomplir
- French: accomplir
- ⇒ Middle English: acomplissen, accomplisshen
- English: accomplish
- Middle French: accomplir
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “complere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 981
- ↑ Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907), An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 167
Further reading
- “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “compleo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
- to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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