battuo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, rare in literary Latin. Perhaps from Gaulish or Germanic, ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”), or a separate root *bʰat- (“to hit”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Welsh bathu (“beat”), Old English beadu (“battle”), and the latter half of Latin andabata. Doublet of battō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbat.tu.oː/, [ˈbät̪ːuoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbat.tu.o/, [ˈbät̪ːuo]
Verb
[edit]battuō (present infinitive battuere, perfect active battuī); third conjugation, no supine stem
- (very rare) to beat, hit, pound, beat up, strike
- to fence, play fencing; to fight
- to bang (have sex with)
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Inflection
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- see: battō
References
[edit]- “battuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “battuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- battuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- la:Fencing
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