expedio
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ex- (“out of”) + pēs, pedis (“feet”) + -iō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈspe.di.oː/, [ɛkˈs̠pɛd̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈspe.di.o/, [ekˈspɛːd̪io]
Verb
[edit]expediō (present infinitive expedīre, perfect active expedīvī or expediī, supine expedītum); fourth conjugation
- to free feet from snares; unfasten fetters; lose the shackles
- to loosen restraints, unchain, set free, liberate, release
- to unwind, untangle, untie, unwrap; disconnect, detach, extricate from entanglements
- to remove impediments, clear obstacles; hasten, expedite a process
- to make ready; prepare, develop, produce
- to carry out, make happen, effect; arrange, settle a matter
- to carry forth, bring forward; send out, dispatch, expedite
- to procure or obtain
- to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient
Conjugation
[edit]1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Descendants
[edit]- Galician: espir
- Italian: spedire
- Portuguese: despir
- Sicilian: spediri
- Venetan: spedir
- Vulgar Latin: *expedītāre
- → English: expedite
- → Esperanto: ekspedi
- → French: expédier
- → Ido: expediar
- → Portuguese: expedir
- → Spanish: expedir
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shpëtoj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 429
- “expedio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expedio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expedio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 628.
- expedio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2573
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to effect a person's deliverance: salutem expedire
- to arrange, settle a matter: negotium conficere, expedire, transigere
- to make ready for battle: arma expedire (Tusc. 2. 16. 37)
- to clear for action: navem expedire
- to effect a person's deliverance: salutem expedire
- “expede”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “expedite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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