Latin

Verb

dēmōnstrō ‎(present infinitive dēmōnstrāre, perfect active dēmōnstrāvī, supine dēmōnstrātum); first conjugation

1. I show, demonstrate, prove
   • 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1

     Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.

     As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

2. I point out
3. I draw attention to

Inflection

Related terms

• dēmonstrābilis
• dēmonstrātiō
• dēmonstrātīvus

Descendants

• English: demonstrate
• French: démontrer
• Old French: demonstrer
• Old Portuguese: demostrar
• Portuguese: demonstrar
• Russian: демонстри́ровать ‎(demonstrírovatʹ)
• Spanish: demostrar

References

• demonstro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• demonstro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “demonstro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
    

Portuguese

Verb

demonstro

1. first-person singular present indicative of demonstrar