Latin

Verb

indulgeō ‎(present infinitive indulgēre, perfect active indulsī, supine indultum); second conjugation

1. (intransitive) I am kind or courteous (to); I am inclined (to); give free rein (to).
2. (intransitive) I give myself up (to); I am addicted (to), indulge (in).
3. (transitive) I concede, allow, grant, permit, bestow.
4. I favor

Inflection

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Descendants

• Albanian: ndëjej
• English: indulge
• Italian: indulgere

References

• indulgeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indulgeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “indulgeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to indulge oneself: animo or simply sibi indulgere
    
  • to give way to grief: dolori indulgere
    
  • to be indulgent to a person's faults: indulgere vitiis alicuius
    
  • to give free play to one's anger: irae indulgere (Liv. 23. 3)
    
  • to indulge one's caprice: sibi or ingenio suo indulgere (Nep. Chabr. 3)
    
  • to be given to drink: vino deditum esse, indulgere
    
• indulgeo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 96