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Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tolerar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ‎(“to bear, carry”). Compare Ancient Greek τλάντος ‎(tlántos, “bearing, suffering”), τολμέω ‎(tolméō, “to carry, bear”), τελαμών ‎(telamṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas, “the 'Bearer' of Heaven”), Lithuanian tiltas ‎(“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला ‎(tulā, “balance”), तुलयति ‎(tulayati, “lifts up, weighs”), Latin tollō ‎(“to bear, support”), tulī ‎(“I bore”), lātus ‎(“borne”), tellūs ‎(“bearing earth”), Old English þolian ‎(“to endure”) (English thole), Old Armenian թողում ‎(tʿołum, “I allow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.le.roː/, [ˈtɔ.ɫɛ.roː]

Verb

tolerō ‎(present infinitive tolerāre, perfect active tolerāvī, supine tolerātum); first conjugation

1. I bear, endure, tolerate.

Inflection

Descendants

• English: tolerate
• French: tolérer
• Italian: tollerare
• Spanish: tolerar
• Portuguese: tolerar

References

• tolero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tolero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tolero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bear the winter: hiemem tolerare
    
  • to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
    
  • to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
    
  • to endure a life of privation: vitam (inopem) tolerare (B. G. 7. 77)
    

Portuguese

Verb

tolero

1. first-person singular present indicative of tolerar

Spanish

Verb

tolero

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