clueo
Latin
Alternative forms
- clueor
- cluō
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kluēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”).
Compare Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слоушати (slušati, “to hear”), Sanskrit श्रोषति (śroṣati), and Ancient Greek κλέος (kléos, “glory, renown”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklu.e.oː/, [ˈkɫʊ.e.oː]
Verb
clueō (present infinitive cluēre); second conjugation, no perfect
- I am called or named.
- I am reputed.
Inflection
| Conjugation of clueo (second conjugation, defective) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | clueō | cluēs | cluet | cluēmus | cluētis | cluent |
| imperfect | cluēbam | cluēbās | cluēbat | cluēbāmus | cluēbātis | cluēbant | |
| future | cluēbō | cluēbis | cluēbit | cluēbimus | cluēbitis | cluēbunt | |
| passive | present | clueor | cluēris, cluēre | cluētur | cluēmur | cluēminī | cluentur |
| imperfect | cluēbar | cluēbāris, cluēbāre | cluēbātur | cluēbāmur | cluēbāminī | cluēbantur | |
| future | cluēbor | cluēberis, cluēbere | cluēbitur | cluēbimur | cluēbiminī | cluēbuntur | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | clueam | clueās | clueat | clueāmus | clueātis | clueant |
| imperfect | cluērem | cluērēs | cluēret | cluērēmus | cluērētis | cluērent | |
| passive | present | cluear | clueāris, clueāre | clueātur | clueāmur | clueāminī | clueantur |
| imperfect | cluērer | cluērēris, cluērēre | cluērētur | cluērēmur | cluērēminī | cluērentur | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cluē | — | — | cluēte | — |
| future | — | cluētō | cluētō | — | cluētōte | cluentō | |
| passive | present | — | cluēre | — | — | cluēminī | — |
| future | — | cluētor | cluētor | — | — | cluentor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cluēre | — | — | cluērī | — | — | |
| participles | cluēns | — | — | — | — | cluendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cluēre | cluendī | cluendō | cluendum | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- cluēns, cliēns
- inclutus, inclitus
References
- clueo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clueo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clueo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
- to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
- to try to divine a person's disposition: animos tentare (Cluent. 63. 176)
- to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)
- to make a person waver in his loyalty: fidem alicuius labefactare (Cluent. 60. 194)
- to hurt some one's feelings: offendere apud aliquem (Cluent. 23. 63)
- to take a false step in a thing; to commit an indiscretion: offendere in aliqua re (Cluent. 36. 98)
- to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
- to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem ab aliquo reptere de aliqua re (Cluent. 37. 104)
- to brand a person with infamy: notare aliquem ignominia (Cluent. 43. 119)
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)