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colloco
colloco
See also: collocò
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From con- + locō (“put, place, set”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkol.lo.koː/, [ˈkɔl.lɔ.koː]
Verb
collocō (present infinitive collocāre, perfect active collocāvī, supine collocātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Synonyms
- (place, put): ponō
Descendants
References
- colloco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colloco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “colloco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to ensure the safety of a thing: in tuto collocare aliquid
- to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
- to employ all one's energies on literary work: omne studium in litteris collocare, ad litteras conferre
- to set one's hope on some one: spem suam ponere, collocare in aliquo
- to put confidence in some one: fiduciam in aliquo ponere, collocare
- to set an ambuscade: insidias collocare, locare (Mil. 10. 27)
- to place some one in ambush: aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere
- to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem collocare alicubi (Rep. 2. 19. 34)
- to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
- to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
- to put money in an undertaking: pecuniam collocare in aliqua re
- to garrison a town: praesidium collocare in urbe
- to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
- to station reserve troops: subsidia collocare
- to ensure the safety of a thing: in tuto collocare aliquid