sufficio

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Latin

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Etymology

From sub- (under; behind; at the foot of; close to; within) +‎ faciō (do, make).

Pronunciation

Verb

sufficiō (present infinitive sufficere, perfect active suffēcī, supine suffectum); third conjugation iō-variant

  1. to supply, provide, afford, give, fill, imbue, furnish, yield, produce
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.617–618:
      “‘Ipse pater Danaīs animōs vīrēsque secundās
      sufficit, ipse deōs in Dardana suscitat arma.’”
      “‘Their Father himself provides the Danaans courage and victorious strength, himself stirs the gods against the Dardan weaponry.’”
      (Venus allows Aeneas to see the gods, and foremost among them, Zeus or Jupiter favors the Greeks against the Trojans.)
  2. to put under or among
  3. to dip, dye, steep, impregnate, tinge, imbue
  4. to appoint to a vacancy, choose as a substitute, employ in
  5. (of a building) to lay a foundation for
  6. (intransitive) to be sufficient, be adequate, be capable, suffice, avail, satisfy
    Synonym: suppeditō

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Descendants

  • Old French: susfire, sufire

References

  • sufficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sufficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sufficio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to elect a man to fill the place of another who has died whilst in office: sufficere aliquem in alicuius locum or alicui