instruo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /insˈtruo/
- Rhymes: -uo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.stru.oː/, [ˈĩː.strʊ.oː]
Verb
īnstruō (present infinitive īnstruere, perfect active īnstrūxī, supine īnstrūctum); third conjugation
- I build in or into, insert; erect, construct
- I arrange, organise or organize, plan; devise
- I prepare (for), provide (for), make ready, set up, furnish, provide, equip, fit out, procure
- I provide with information, teach, inform, instruct
- (military) I draw up (in battle formation), array, set in order, form
Inflection
In Classical texts, the only passive forms for this verb are third-person singular and plural. The second-person singular perfect indicative active form īnstrūxistī sometimes occurs syncopated as īnstrūxtī.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: instruct
- Italian: istruire
- Old French:
- French: instruire
- Norman: înstruithe (Jersey)
- Spanish: instruir
References
- instruo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- instruo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
- to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide)
- to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
- to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
- to draw up the army in three lines: aciem triplicem instruere (B. G. 1. 24)
- to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere
- to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
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