admoveo

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ad- +‎ moveō (move).

Pronunciation

Verb

admoveō (present infinitive admovēre, perfect active admōvī, supine admōtum); second conjugation

  1. to move, bring, conduct, lead or carry someone or something to or toward; apply to
  2. to move or bring someone or something near to another; reconcile
  3. (military) to move or bring up or forward, call upon
  4. (figuratively) to apply, attend or direct to or toward
  5. (with aurem or aures) to lend an ear to
  6. (with manum or manus) to put one's hand to an undertaking
  7. (with manum or manus) to lay violent hands upon; attack, assault

Conjugation

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Descendants

  • English: admove

References

  • admoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • admoveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • admoveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere
    • to have a person tortured: alicui admovere tormenta
    • to advance on..: exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
    • to apply scaling-ladders: scalas admovere (B. C. 3. 63)