caelo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂id-, *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, hew”). Related to caedō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.loː/, [ˈkäe̯ɫ̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.lo/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːlo]
Verb
caelō (present infinitive caelāre, perfect active caelāvī, supine caelātum); first conjugation
- to carve
- to engrave, emboss or chase
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.5–7:
- Māteriam superābat opus: nam Mulciber illīc
aequora caelārat mediās cingentia terrās
terrārumque orbem caelumque, quod imminet orbī.- The craftsmanship surpassed the materials: for there Vulcan
had engraved the oceans, surrounding the central lands,
and the Earth’s sphere and the sky, which overhangs the earth.
- The craftsmanship surpassed the materials: for there Vulcan
- Māteriam superābat opus: nam Mulciber illīc
- (figurative) to embroider
- (figurative) to compose
Conjugation
References
- “caelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caelo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
- (ambiguous) to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
- (ambiguous) when it is growing dusk; towards evening: die, caelo vesperascente
- (ambiguous) to observe the sky (i.e. the flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.: de caelo servare (Att. 4. 3. 3)
- (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
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