apparo

apparo

1. first-person singular present indicative of apparare

• Paparo

• adparō

From ad- (“to, towards, at”) +‎ parō (“prepare, provide”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈap.pa.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈap.pa.ro]

apparō (present infinitive apparāre, perfect active apparāvī, supine apparātum); first conjugation

1. to prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize

   Synonyms: comparō, adōrnō, exōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, parō, compōnō, īnstruō, accingō, suggerō, ministrō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 594:

     CHREMĒS: Domum modo ībō, ut appārentur dīcam; atque hūc renūntiō.

     CHREMES: I’ll just go home now, so that I can tell them to be making preparations [for the wedding]; and then I’ll report back here.

2. (with dative) to provide or equip in addition to

Not to be confused with appāreō (“I appear, I become visible”)

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• “apparo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apparo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apparo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to institute games: ludos apparare
    
  • to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have disappeared: non apparere