benedico
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be.neˈdi.ko/
- Rhymes: -iko
- Hyphenation: be‧ne‧dì‧co
Verb
benedico
- first-person singular present indicative of benedire
- first-person singular present indicative of benedicere
Latin
Etymology 1
From bene (“well”) + dīcō (“speak”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /be.neˈdiː.koː/, [bɛnɛˈd̪iːkoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /be.neˈdi.ko/, [beneˈd̪iːko]
Verb
benedīcō (present infinitive benedīcere, perfect active benedīxī, supine benedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- I speak well of someone, commend.
- Antonyms: īnsultō, maledīcō, exsecror, obloquor, compellō, incessō, pulsō
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) I bless, praise.
- Benedicite, omnia opera Domini
- All ye works of the Lord, praise ye the Lord
- Benedicite, omnia opera Domini
Usage notes
This is used as a compound only outside of Classical Latin.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of benedīcō (third conjugation, irregular short imperative) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | benedīcō | benedīcis | benedīcit | benedīcimus | benedīcitis | benedīcunt |
| imperfect | benedīcēbam | benedīcēbās | benedīcēbat | benedīcēbāmus | benedīcēbātis | benedīcēbant | |
| future | benedīcam | benedīcēs | benedīcet | benedīcēmus | benedīcētis | benedīcent | |
| perfect | benedīxī | benedīxistī | benedīxit | benedīximus | benedīxistis | benedīxērunt, benedīxēre | |
| pluperfect | benedīxeram | benedīxerās | benedīxerat | benedīxerāmus | benedīxerātis | benedīxerant | |
| future perfect | benedīxerō | benedīxeris | benedīxerit | benedīxerimus | benedīxeritis | benedīxerint | |
| passive | present | benedīcor | benedīceris, benedīcere | benedīcitur | benedīcimur | benedīciminī | benedīcuntur |
| imperfect | benedīcēbar | benedīcēbāris, benedīcēbāre | benedīcēbātur | benedīcēbāmur | benedīcēbāminī | benedīcēbantur | |
| future | benedīcar | benedīcēris, benedīcēre | benedīcētur | benedīcēmur | benedīcēminī | benedīcentur | |
| perfect | benedictus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | benedictus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | benedictus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | benedīcam | benedīcās | benedīcat | benedīcāmus | benedīcātis | benedīcant |
| imperfect | benedīcerem | benedīcerēs | benedīceret | benedīcerēmus | benedīcerētis | benedīcerent | |
| perfect | benedīxerim | benedīxerīs | benedīxerit | benedīxerīmus | benedīxerītis | benedīxerint | |
| pluperfect | benedīxissem | benedīxissēs | benedīxisset | benedīxissēmus | benedīxissētis | benedīxissent | |
| passive | present | benedīcar | benedīcāris, benedīcāre | benedīcātur | benedīcāmur | benedīcāminī | benedīcantur |
| imperfect | benedīcerer | benedīcerēris, benedīcerēre | benedīcerētur | benedīcerēmur | benedīcerēminī | benedīcerentur | |
| perfect | benedictus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | benedictus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | benedīc, benedīce1 | — | — | benedīcite | — |
| future | — | benedīcitō | benedīcitō | — | benedīcitōte | benedīcuntō | |
| passive | present | — | benedīcere | — | — | benedīciminī | — |
| future | — | benedīcitor | benedīcitor | — | — | benedīcuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | benedīcere | benedīxisse | benedictūrum esse | benedīcī | benedictum esse | benedictum īrī | |
| participles | benedīcēns | — | benedictūrus | — | benedictus | benedīcendus, benedīcundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| benedīcendī | benedīcendō | benedīcendum | benedīcendō | benedictum | benedictū | ||
1Archaic.
Descendants
- Corsican: benedì
- Extremaduran: bendizir
- Franco-Provençal: benêtre, benir
- Italian: benedire
- Old French: beneistre, beneïstre, beneir, beneïr
- French: bénir
- Norman: béni (Jersey)
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: bendicir
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: bendicir
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: beneir
- Occitan: benesir
- Old Portuguese: bẽeizer, bẽezer
- Galician: beicer
- Portuguese: benzer
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: bendecir
- → Galician: bendicir
- Spanish: bendecir
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: benedî, binidî
- Romansch: benedir, banadir, banadeir
- Sardinian: benedíxi, benedíxiri, beneíchere, beníchere
- Sicilian: binidìciri, binidiri
- Venetian: benedir
- → Albanian: bekoj
- → English: benedict
- → Middle High German: benedīen, benedīgende
- German: benedeien
- → Old Irish: bennachaid, bendachaid
- Middle Irish: bennaigid
- Irish: beannaigh
- Manx: bannee
- Middle Irish: bennaigid
- → Portuguese: bendizer
- → Welsh: bendithio, benditho, bendigo
- → Yiddish: בענטשן (bentshn)
- → Dutch: bensjen
- → English: bentsh
Etymology 2
Inflected form of benedicus.
Adjective
benedicō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of benedicus
References
- “benedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- benedico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- benedico in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016