autumo
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAccording to De Vaan, perhaps from autem + aiō, similarly to negō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.tu.moː/, [ˈäu̯t̪ʊmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.tu.mo/, [ˈäːu̯t̪umo]
Verb
editautumō (present infinitive autumāre, perfect active autumāvī, supine autumātum); first conjugation
- (chiefly Old Latin) to say yes, affirm
- (Old Latin, Late Latin and Medieval Latin) to assert, state
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.18:
- Et ad illum "Nōn" inquam "immeritō medicī fīdī cibō et crapulā distentōs saeva et gravia somniāre autumant. […] "
- And I said to him, "It's for good reasons that trustworthy doctors assert that those swollen with food and drink have violent and severe dreams. […] "
- Et ad illum "Nōn" inquam "immeritō medicī fīdī cibō et crapulā distentōs saeva et gravia somniāre autumant. […] "
- 895 CE, Angelomus Luxovensis, Enarrationes in libros Regum In librum secundum.24:
- In illo siquidem loco, ut Hebraei autumant, aliquando contigerat Abraham offerre filium suum Isaac, quando, cum jam paratus esset occidere filium, et in holocaustum exhibere, improviso aries apparuit, et altare circumstetit, quem Abraham pro filio immolavit.
- Accordingly, it was in that place, as Hebrew people assert, that Abraham's near-offering of his son Isaac was about to happen when, already prepared to kill his son to make of him a burnt-offering, a ram suddenly appeared and stoof around the altar, which Abraham then sacrificed instead of his son.
- In illo siquidem loco, ut Hebraei autumant, aliquando contigerat Abraham offerre filium suum Isaac, quando, cum jam paratus esset occidere filium, et in holocaustum exhibere, improviso aries apparuit, et altare circumstetit, quem Abraham pro filio immolavit.
- (rare) to name
- c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Historia Romana 1.6:
- Hōc tractū temporum, ante annōs quīnque et sexāgintā quam urbs Rōmāna conderētur, ab Elissā Tȳriā, quam quīdam Dīdō autumant, Carthāgō conditur.
- In this period of time, 65 years before the city of Rome were to be founded, Carthage was founded by Elissa the Tyrian, whom some people name Dido.
- Hōc tractū temporum, ante annōs quīnque et sexāgintā quam urbs Rōmāna conderētur, ab Elissā Tȳriā, quam quīdam Dīdō autumant, Carthāgō conditur.
- (metonymically, rare) to think, believe, reckon
Usage notes
editVery rarely used in Classical Latin.
Conjugation
editDescendants
edit- ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *tumāre
References
edit- “autumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “autumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- autumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.