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abhorreo
abhorreo
Latin
Verb
abhorreō (present infinitive abhorrēre, perfect active abhorruī); second conjugation, no passive
- I abhor, shudder at, recoil or shrink back from.
- I am averse or disinclined to.
- I am free from.
- (by extension) I am inconsistent or do not agree with, vary or differ from.
Inflection
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (abhor): amō
Derived terms
- abhorrēns (participle)
- abhorrēscō (inchoative)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- abhorreo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abhorreo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abhorreo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- something offends my instincts, goes against the grain: aliquid a sensibus meis abhorret
- to be probable: a vero non abhorrere
- to have no taste for the fine arts: abhorrere ab artibus (opp. delectari artibus)
- the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est
- to have no presentiment of a thing: a suspicione alicuius rei abhorrere
- to have an inclination for a thing: propensum, proclivem esse ad aliquid (opp. alienum, aversum esse, abhorrere ab aliqua re)
- something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
- something offends my instincts, goes against the grain: aliquid a sensibus meis abhorret