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cohibeo

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Latin

Alternative forms

  • choibeō

Etymology

From con- + habeō (have, hold).

Pronunciation

Verb

cohibeō (present infinitive cohibēre, perfect active cohibuī, supine cohibitum); second conjugation

  1. to hold together, contain, confine, comprise
    Synonyms: teneō, contineō
  2. to keep (back), hinder, stay, stop, restrain
    Synonyms: arceō, retineō, prohibeō, resistō, interclūdō, sistō, excludō, dētineō
  3. to hold in check, limit, repress, subdue, tame
    Synonyms: reprimō, supprimō, sepeliō, opprimō, comprimō, dēprimō, subigō, domō

Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: cohibit
  • Portuguese: coibir
  • Spanish: cohibir

References

  • cohibeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cohibeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cohibeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    • to restrain, master one's passion: iracundiam continere, cohibere, reprimere
    • to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
    • to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates
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