commemoro
See also: commemorò
Catalan
Verb
commemoro
- first-person singular present indicative of commemorar
Italian
Verb
commemoro
- first-person singular present indicative of commemorare
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈmɛ.mɔ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈmɛː.mo.ro]
Verb
commemorō (present infinitive commemorāre, perfect active commemorāvī, supine commemorātum); first conjugation
- to recall
- to remember
- to mention, relate, recount
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.52:
- Quid ego vitium ortūs, satūs, incrēmenta commemorem? Satiārī dēlectātiōne nōn possum, ut meae senectūtis requiem oblectāmentumque nōscātis.
- Why should I even mention the origins, planting, and growth of vines? I cannot get enough of this pleasure — [I say this] so that you all may understand [what constitutes] the repose and joy of my old age.
(This is a deliberative subjunctive, used to ask a rhetorical question.)
- Why should I even mention the origins, planting, and growth of vines? I cannot get enough of this pleasure — [I say this] so that you all may understand [what constitutes] the repose and joy of my old age.
- Quid ego vitium ortūs, satūs, incrēmenta commemorem? Satiārī dēlectātiōne nōn possum, ut meae senectūtis requiem oblectāmentumque nōscātis.
- to place on record
Conjugation
Conjugation of commemorō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- commemorābilis
- commemorātiō
- commemorātīvus
- commemorātor
- commemorātorius
Descendants
- Asturian: conmemorar
- Catalan: commemorar
- English: commemorate
- French: commémorer
- Galician: conmemorar
- Italian: commemorare
- Lombard: comemorà
- Portuguese: comemorar
- Romanian: comemora
- Spanish: conmemorar
References
- “commemoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commemoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “commemoro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cite a person or a thing as an example: aliquem (aliquid) exempli causa ponere, proferre, nominare, commemorare
- to cite a person or a thing as an example: aliquem (aliquid) exempli causa ponere, proferre, nominare, commemorare