pertineo

Latin

Etymology

From per- (“through”) +‎ teneō (“I hold”). Compare, on composition and meaning, with the later formed perteneō (“to hold constantly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /perˈti.ne.oː/, [pɛrˈt̪ɪneoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /perˈti.ne.o/, [perˈt̪iːneo]

Verb

pertineō (present infinitive pertinēre, perfect active pertinuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to extend, stretch out, reach, matter
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones.

     Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.

2. to belong, relate, pertain, have concern
3. to have a tendency to, tend to
4. (Late Latin) to be the property of, belong to; to be attributable to

Usage notes

The verb takes the preposition ad, very rarely in or per, governing the Accusative.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pertineō (second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pertineō		pertinēs		pertinet		pertinēmus		pertinētis		pertinent
	imperfect	pertinēbam		pertinēbās		pertinēbat		pertinēbāmus		pertinēbātis		pertinēbant
	future	pertinēbō		pertinēbis		pertinēbit		pertinēbimus		pertinēbitis		pertinēbunt
	perfect	pertinuī		pertinuistī		pertinuit		pertinuimus		pertinuistis		pertinuērunt, pertinuēre
	pluperfect	pertinueram		pertinuerās		pertinuerat		pertinuerāmus		pertinuerātis		pertinuerant
	future perfect	pertinuerō		pertinueris		pertinuerit		pertinuerimus		pertinueritis		pertinuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pertineam		pertineās		pertineat		pertineāmus		pertineātis		pertineant
	imperfect	pertinērem		pertinērēs		pertinēret		pertinērēmus		pertinērētis		pertinērent
	perfect	pertinuerim		pertinuerīs		pertinuerit		pertinuerīmus		pertinuerītis		pertinuerint
	pluperfect	pertinuissem		pertinuissēs		pertinuisset		pertinuissēmus		pertinuissētis		pertinuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pertinē		—		—		pertinēte		—
	future	—		pertinētō		pertinētō		—		pertinētōte		pertinentō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pertinēre			—			pertinēns			—
perfect		pertinuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pertinendī		pertinendō		pertinendum		pertinendō		—		—

Derived terms

• appertineō
• pertināx
• pertinēns
• pertinenter

Related terms

• abstineō
• attineō
• circumteneō
• contineō
• dētineō
• distineō
• obtineō
• retineō
• sustineō
• teneō
• trānstineō

Descendants

• Asturian: pertener, pertenecer
• Catalan: pertànyer (in part)
• → English: pertain
• Galician: pertencer
• Italian: pertenere
• Old Catalan: pertenir
• Portuguese: pertencer
• Sicilian: pirtèniri
• Spanish: pertenecer, pertener
• → Welsh: perthyn

References

• “pertineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pertineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pertineo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine: haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenum
    
  • to be essentially important to a thing: pertinere ad aliquid
    
  • a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
    
  • a suspicion falls on some one: suspicio (alicuius rei) cadit in aliquem, pertinet ad aliquem
    
  • the necessaries of life: quae ad victum pertinent