compleo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From con- +‎ pleō.

Pronunciation

Verb

compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation

  1. to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete
    Synonyms: impleō, expleō, repleō, suppleō, cumulō, stīpō, imbuō
    Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō
    Pōculum complēvit et hausit. Aquam et vīnum miscuit. Collāpsus est.He filled the cup and drank it. He mixed water and wine. He collapsed.
  2. to cover, overwhelm
  3. to occupy, set up a garrison (military)
    Synonyms: occupō, obsideō, possideō, obtineō, capiō, teneō, potior
  4. (with food or drink) to fill, sate; satisfy
  5. to finish, complete
  6. (of a promise) to fulfil

Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

(All having the sense of "finish, complete"):

  • Insular Romance:
    • Old Sassarese: clomper
      • Sassarese: zompere
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: compiere
    • Neapolitan: cùnchiere (Calabria)
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *accomplēre
    • Italian: accompiere

Reflexes of an assumed variant *complīre:[1]

References

  1. ^ Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907), An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 167

Further reading

  • compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • compleo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
    • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti