promenervo

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. By surface analysis, from pro- + *menervō, an otherwise unattested verb. De Vaan suggests that the form *menervō is a denominative verb to an unattested noun from Proto-Indo-European *men-. The form *menervō is related to Latin Minerva, from Proto-Italic *Menezwā.

Pronunciation

Verb

prōmenervō (present infinitive prōmenervāre, perfect active prōmenervāvī, supine prōmenervātum); first conjugation

  1. (hapax legomenon) to warn
    Synonyms: admoneō, condicō, praemoneō, praecipiō, praedīcō, moneō
    • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De Verborum Significatione 205.11-13:
      Pa pro parte, et po pro potissimum positum est in saliari carmine. Promenervat item, pro monet.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

References

  • promenervat”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • promenervat in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • promenervo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 380-381