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Verb
adulo
- first-person singular present indicative of adular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.du.lo/, (traditional, careful style) /aˈdu.lo/
- Rhymes: -adulo, (traditional, careful style) -ulo
- Hyphenation: à‧du‧lo, (traditional, careful style) a‧dù‧lo
Verb
adulo
- first-person singular present indicative of adulare
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
See adūlor.
Pronunciation
Verb
adūlō (present infinitive adūlāre, perfect active adūlāvī, supine adūlātum); first conjugation
- (rare, transitive) to fawn upon, flatter
Usage notes
This is a regularised form of the deponent verb adūlor. It occurs in Classical Latin, even in the passive form (with a passive sense).
Conjugation
References
- “adulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Verb
adulo
- first-person singular present indicative of adular
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdulo/
- Rhymes: -ulo
- Syllabification: a‧du‧lo
Verb
adulo
- first-person singular present indicative of adular