consequor
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From con- sequor (“I follow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkon.se.kʷor/, [ˈkõːs̠ɛkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.se.kwor/, [ˈkɔnsekwor]
Verb
[edit]cōnsequor (present infinitive cōnsequī, perfect active cōnsecūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to move, travel, come, pass or go after, or follow behind another (in time and/or space)
- to chase, to pursue, to go after; to look for, to search for, to seek
- to attend, to accompany, to escort
- to copy, to imitate; to adopt, to obey
- to follow as a consequence or effect: to ensue (from), to result (from), to arise (from) or to proceed (from)
- to reach, to overtake, to come up with, to attain to, to arrive at
- to become like or equal to someone or something in any property or quality; to equal, to match, to attain, to come up to
- to obtain, to acquire, to get, attain, reach
- (of sight) to reach, to distinguish
- to understand, to perceive, to learn, to know
- Synonyms: comprehendō, dēprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, teneō, apīscor, apprehendō, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō
- Antonyms: nesciō, ignōrō
- (of discourse) to be equal to, to impress fully, to do justice to
Conjugation
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- see sequor
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: aconseguir
- → English: consecute
- Italian: conseguire
- Old French: consivre, acconsuivre
- Portuguese: conseguir
- Sicilian: cunzicutari
- Spanish: conseguir
References
[edit]- “consequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consequor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to catch some one up: consequi, assequi aliquem
- to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
- to win (undying) fame: gloriam (immortalem) consequi, adipisci
- to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientiam alicuius rei consequi
- to obtain a result in something: aliquid efficere, consequi in aliqua re (De Or. 1. 33. 152)
- to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
- to overtake the enemy: hostes assequi, consequi
- to catch some one up: consequi, assequi aliquem
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)
- Latin terms prefixed with con-
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation deponent verbs
- Latin deponent verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook