consequor
Latin
[edit]Etymology
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From con- + sequor (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkõː.sɛ.kʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔn.se.kʷor]
Verb
[edit]cōnsequor (present infinitive cōnsequī, perfect active cōnsecūtus sum or cōnsequūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to move, travel, come, pass or go after, or follow behind another (in time and/or space)
- to chase, to pursue, to go after; to look for, to search for, to seek
- to attend, to accompany, to escort
- to copy, to imitate; to adopt, to obey
- to follow as a consequence or effect: to ensue (from), to result (from), to arise (from) or to proceed (from)
- to reach, to overtake, to come up with, to attain to, to arrive at
- to become like or equal to someone or something in any property or quality; to equal, to match, to attain, to come up to
- to obtain, to acquire, to get, attain, reach
- Synonyms: acquīrō, parō, pariō, adipīscor, lucror, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, potior, inveniō, ūsūrpō, comparō, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō
- Antonym: āmittō
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 2.1:
- quod in Gallia a potentioribus atque iis qui ad conducendos homines facultates habebant vulgo regna occupabantur; qui minus facile eam rem imperio nostro consequi poterant
- Because, in Gaul, those were more powerful and had the capacity to hire men often sought to make themselves kings, and they were less able to easily accomplish this objective on account of our empire
- quod in Gallia a potentioribus atque iis qui ad conducendos homines facultates habebant vulgo regna occupabantur; qui minus facile eam rem imperio nostro consequi poterant
- (of sight) to reach, to distinguish
- to understand, to perceive, to learn, to know
- Synonyms: comprehendō, dēprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, teneō, apīscor, apprehendō, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō
- Antonyms: nesciō, ignōrō
- (of discourse) to be equal to, to impress fully, to do justice to
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cōnsequor (third conjugation, deponent)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: aconseguir
- → English: consecute
- Italian: conseguire
- Old French: consivre, acconsuivre
- Portuguese: conseguir
- Sicilian: cunzicutari
- Spanish: conseguir
References
[edit]- “consequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “consequor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to catch some one up: consequi, assequi aliquem
- to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
- to win (undying) fame: gloriam (immortalem) consequi, adipisci
- to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientiam alicuius rei consequi
- to obtain a result in something: aliquid efficere, consequi in aliqua re (De Or. 1. 33. 152)
- to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
- to overtake the enemy: hostes assequi, consequi
- to catch some one up: consequi, assequi aliquem
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱóm
- Latin terms prefixed with con-
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin terms with quotations
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation deponent verbs
- Latin deponent verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook