vindico
See also: vindicó
Catalan
editVerb
editvindico
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom vindex (“defender, protector”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯in.di.koː/, [ˈu̯ɪn̪d̪ɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvin.di.ko/, [ˈvin̪d̪iko]
Verb
editvindicō (present infinitive vindicāre, perfect active vindicāvī, supine vindicātum); first conjugation
- to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi)
- to set free, liberate, emancipate
- Synonym: līberō
- to protect someone from (+ ab or ex aliquō)
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.227–228:
- “Nōn illum nōbīs genetrīx pulcherrima tālem
prōmīsit, Grāiumque ideō bis vindicat armīs; [...].”- “Not such [a man] as this did his most beautiful mother promise to us, nor for this [purpose] is she protecting him — twice from Greek attacks; [...].”
(Jupiter speaks about Venus’s mortal son, Aeneas, whom the goddess saved first from Diomedes in Iliad 5.311-318, and later during the fall of Troy in Aeneid 2.589-633. Note that although “promisit” is past tense, “vindicat” is literally present tense: Aeneas remains under Venus’s protection.)
- “Not such [a man] as this did his most beautiful mother promise to us, nor for this [purpose] is she protecting him — twice from Greek attacks; [...].”
- “Nōn illum nōbīs genetrīx pulcherrima tālem
- to avenge, vindicate, punish a deed
- Synonym: pūniō
- to take action against (+ in aliquem)
- Synonyms: consulō, animadvertō
- to revenge oneself on one (+ ab or dē aliquō)
- Synonym: ulcīscor
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: vindic, vindicari
- Romanian: vindeca, vindecare
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “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[1], 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
- to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare
- Dizionario Latino-Italiano, Olivetti
Spanish
editVerb
editvindico
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