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suppleo
suppleo
Latin
Alternative forms
- subpleō
Verb
suppleō (present infinitive supplēre, perfect active supplēvī, supine supplētum); second conjugation
- I make up the numbers, fill up, complete, make good; supply, supplement.
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1
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Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]
- If reinforcements were needed, he should supply them with the legions which Publius Cornelius, propraetor, was in charge of in Sicily, […]
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Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]
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- (military) I fill up, furnish with a complement, recruit.
Inflection
Derived terms
- supplēmentum
- supplētōrium
- supplētus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- suppleo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- suppleo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suppleo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- suppleo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016