Italian

Verb

lavo

1. first-person singular present indicative of lavare

Anagrams

• vola

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- ‎(“to wash”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λούω ‎(loúō), λοέω ‎(loéō), Albanian laj, Old Armenian լոգանամ ‎(loganam), and Old English lēaþor (English lather). Doublet with the later back-formed luō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.woː/, [ˈɫa.woː]

Verb

lavō ‎(present infinitive lavāre, perfect active lāvī, supine lavātum); first conjugation

1. I wash, bathe
2. I wet, moisten

Usage notes

The supine form is sometimes lautum or lōtum.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• lavo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lavo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lavo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take a cold, warm, bath: frigidā, calidā lavari (Plin. Ep. 3. 5. 11)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avu

Verb

lavo

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of lavar

Spanish

Verb

lavo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of lavar.