Verb
pāreō (present infinitive pārēre, perfect active pāruī, supine pāritum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to appear, be visible, be apparent
- Synonyms: appāreō, exorior, orior, coorior, obversor, oborior, prōcēdō
- Antonyms: concēdō, decēdō, cēdō, excēdō, pereō, intereō, discēdō
- (with dative) to obey, submit to, be obedient to
- Synonyms: oboediō, exaudiō, obtemperō
- Antonym: recalcitrō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.238–239:
- Ille patris magnī pārēre parābat / imperiō...
- He was preparing to obey the order of his great Father...
Conjugation
- The only passive forms attested in Latin are the third-person singular forms.
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Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: parer
- Old French: paroir
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: parrere, parri, parriri
- Vulgar Latin: *pārēscere (see there for further descendants)
References
- “pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pareo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
- (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
- (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pāreō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 445