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Verb
vindico
- first-person singular present indicative of vindicar
Latin
Etymology
From vindex (“defender, protector”), from dīcō (“say; declare, state”).
Pronunciation
Verb
vindicō (present infinitive vindicāre, perfect active vindicāvī, supine vindicātum); first conjugation
- to avenge, vindicate, claim, punish
- Synonyms: pūniō, ulciscor
- to liberate, deliver, spare, rescue
- Synonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exuō, servō, prīvō
- Antonyms: refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō
- to protect someone from. (coupled with a, ab, e, ex + ablative)
- Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, tegō, dēfendō, sustineō, adsum, tueor, ēripiō, arceō, servō, prohibeō
- Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
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Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vindico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare
- to rescue from oblivion: aliquid ab oblivione vindicare
- to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
- Dizionario Latino-Italiano, Olivetti
Spanish
Verb
vindico
- first-person singular present indicative of vindicar