compleo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.ple.oː/, [ˈkɔm.pɫe.oː]
Verb
compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation
- I fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete.
- I cover, overwhelm.
- (with food or drink) I fill, sate; satisfy.
- I finish, complete.
- (of a promise) I fulfil.
Inflection
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
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References
- 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, 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)
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
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