Latin

Alternative forms

• conpleō

Verb

compleō ‎(present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation

1. I fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete.
2. I cover, overwhelm.
3. (with food or drink) I fill, sate; satisfy.
4. I finish, complete.
5. (of a promise) I fulfil.

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References

• compleo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• compleo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “compleo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
    
  • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)