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Italian
Verb
appropinquo
- first-person singular present indicative of appropinquarsi
Latin
Etymology
From ad- (“towards”) + propinquō (“draw near”), verbalization of propinquus (“near”).
Pronunciation
Verb
appropinquō (present infinitive appropinquāre, perfect active appropinquāvī, supine appropinquātum); first conjugation
- (transitive, with dative) to approach, come near to
- Synonym: appropiō
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References
- “appropinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “appropinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- appropinquo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw near to a city: appropinquare urbi, rarely ad urbem