coniveo
Latin
Alternative forms
- connīveō
Etymology
From con- + Proto-Italic *kneiɣʷēō, which is from Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, to droop”). Cognate with nicō, nictō, nītor (“to bear or rest upon something”), and with Proto-Germanic *hnīwaną.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koːˈniː.we.oː/
Verb
cōnīveō (present infinitive cōnīvēre, perfect active cōnīvī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- I close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink
- I overlook, connive or turn a blind eye.
Conjugation
- The third principal part may also be cōnīxī.
| Conjugation of cōnīveō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnīveō | cōnīvēs | cōnīvet | cōnīvēmus | cōnīvētis | cōnīvent |
| imperfect | cōnīvēbam | cōnīvēbās | cōnīvēbat | cōnīvēbāmus | cōnīvēbātis | cōnīvēbant | |
| future | cōnīvēbō | cōnīvēbis | cōnīvēbit | cōnīvēbimus | cōnīvēbitis | cōnīvēbunt | |
| perfect | cōnīvī | cōnīvistī | cōnīvit | cōnīvimus | cōnīvistis | cōnīvērunt, cōnīvēre | |
| pluperfect | cōnīveram | cōnīverās | cōnīverat | cōnīverāmus | cōnīverātis | cōnīverant | |
| future perfect | cōnīverō | cōnīveris | cōnīverit | cōnīverimus | cōnīveritis | cōnīverint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnīveam | cōnīveās | cōnīveat | cōnīveāmus | cōnīveātis | cōnīveant |
| imperfect | cōnīvērem | cōnīvērēs | cōnīvēret | cōnīvērēmus | cōnīvērētis | cōnīvērent | |
| perfect | cōnīverim | cōnīverīs | cōnīverit | cōnīverīmus | cōnīverītis | cōnīverint | |
| pluperfect | cōnīvissem | cōnīvissēs | cōnīvisset | cōnīvissēmus | cōnīvissētis | cōnīvissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnīvē | — | — | cōnīvēte | — |
| future | — | cōnīvētō | cōnīvētō | — | cōnīvētōte | cōnīventō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnīvēre | cōnīvisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | cōnīvēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnīvendī | cōnīvendō | cōnīvendum | cōnīvendō | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- cōnīvēns
- cōnīventia
Descendants
- English: connive
- French: conniver
References
- coniveo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coniveo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coniveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN