benedico
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Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]benedico
- first-person singular present indicative of benedire
- first-person singular present indicative of benedicere
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From bene (“well”) + dīcō (“to speak”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /be.neˈdiː.koː/, [bɛnɛˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /be.neˈdi.ko/, [beneˈd̪iːko]
Verb
[edit]benedīcō (present infinitive benedīcere, perfect active benedīxī, supine benedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to speak well of someone, commend
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to bless, praise
- Benedicite, omnia opera DominiBenedicite
- Bless, all the works of the Lord
- Benedicite, omnia opera DominiBenedicite
Usage notes
[edit]This is used as a compound only outside of Classical Latin.
Conjugation
[edit]1Archaic.
Descendants
[edit]- Corsican: benedì
- Extremaduran: bendizir
- Franco-Provençal: benêtre, benir
- Italian: benedire
- Old French: beneistre, beneïstre, beneir, beneïr
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: bendicir
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: bendicir
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bẽeizer, bẽezer
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: benedíxi, benedíxiri, beneíchere, beníchere
- Sicilian: binidìciri, binidiri
- Venetan: benedir
- → Albanian: bekoj
- → English: benedict
- → Middle High German: benedīen, benedīgende
- German: benedeien
- → Old Irish: bennachaid, bendachaid
- → Portuguese: bendizer
- → Welsh: bendithio, benditho, bendigo
- → Yiddish: בענטשן (bentshn)
Etymology 2
[edit]Inflected form of benedicus.
Adjective
[edit]benedicō
References
[edit]- “benedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- benedico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- benedico in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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