adiuvo

See also: adiuvò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.dju.vo/
  • Rhymes: -adjuvo
  • Hyphenation: à‧diu‧vo

Verb

adiuvo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of adiuvare

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • From ad- (towards) +‎ iuvō (to help).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    adiuvō (present infinitive adiuvāre, perfect active adiūvī or adiuvāvī, supine adiūtum or adiuvātum); first conjugation

    1. to help, assist
      Synonyms: adiūtō, iuvō, assistō, succurrō, sublevō, prōficiō, prōsum, adsum
      Antonym: officiō
    2. to be useful
      Synonyms: prosum, valeō, expediō, prōficiō, cōnferō
    3. (figuratively) to cheer

    Usage notes

    In very rare circumstances, the perfect is adiuvāvī and the supine is adiuvātum.

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: aggiovare (archaic)
      • Sicilian: aggiuvari
    • Borrowings:

    References

    • adjuvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • adiuvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • Enrico Olivett. Dizionario Latino