benedico

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /be.neˈdi.ko/
  • Rhymes: -iko
  • Hyphenation: be‧ne‧dì‧co

Verb

benedico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of benedire
  2. first-person singular present indicative of benedicere

Latin

Etymology 1

    From bene (well) +‎ dīcō (to speak).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    benedīcō (present infinitive benedīcere, perfect active benedīxī, supine benedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

    1. to speak well of someone, commend
      Antonyms: īnsultō, maledīcō, exsecror, obloquor, compellō, incessō, pulsō
    2. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to bless, praise
      Benedicite, omnia opera DominiBenedicite
      Bless, all the works of the Lord
    Usage notes

    This is used as a compound only outside of Classical Latin.

    Conjugation

    1Old Latin.

    Descendants
    • Corsican: benedì
    • Extremaduran: bendizir
    • Franco-Provençal: benêtre, benir
    • Italian: benedire
    • Old French: beneistre, beneïstre, beneir, beneïr
    • Old Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Old Leonese:
    • Old Occitan:
      • Catalan: beneir
      • Occitan: benesir
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: bẽeizer, bẽezer
      • Galician: beicer
      • Portuguese: benzer
    • Old Spanish:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Sardinian: benedíxi, benedíxiri, beneíchere, beníchere
    • Sicilian: binidìciri, binidiri
    • Venetan: benedir
    • Albanian: bekoj
    • English: benedict
    • Middle High German: benedīen, benedīgende
    • Old Dutch: benedīon
    • Old Irish: bennachaid, bendachaid
    • Portuguese: bendizer
    • Welsh: bendithio, benditho, bendigo
    • Yiddish: בענטשן (bentshn)

    Etymology 2

    Inflected form of benedicus.

    Adjective

    benedicō

    1. 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016