Lemma 1do, dare, dedi, datus

verb

- to give; dedicate; to sell; to pay; to grant/bestow/impart/offer/lend; to devote; to allow; - to surrender/give over; to send to die; to ascribe/attribute; to give birth/produce

Morphology2 analyses

present infinitive actived + are · regular

present imperative passive 2nd singulard + are · regular

Lewis & Short

key · doFull entry

do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, v. a. [Sanscr. dā, da-dā-mi, give; Gr.; cf.: dos, donum, damnum]

I.Subj.; an old formula in; an old formula in — Imper.: DVITOR, XII. Tab. ap. ex conject. — Inf.: DASI = dari, acc. to Paul. ex Müll. — The pres. pass., first pers., dor, does not occur, to give; and hence, with the greatest variety of application, passing over into the senses of its compounds, derivatives, and synonyms (edere, tradere, dedere; reddere, donare, largiri, concedere, exhibere, porrigere, praestare, impertire, suppeditare, ministrare, subministrare, praebere, tribuere, offerre, etc.), as, to give away, grant, concede, allow, permit; give up, yield, resign; bestow, present, confer, furnish, afford; offer, etc. (very freq.).

II.In gen.; ut obsides accipere non dare consuerint, Caes. B. G. 1, 4 fin.; fin.: litteras (ad aliquem), to write to one, saep.; fin.: fin.; init.: colloquium dare, to join in a conference, converse (poet.), Lachm.; fin.: et saep.: ita dat se res, so it is circumstanced, so it is, Poëta ap. — Impers.: sic datur, so it goes, such is fate, i. e. you have your reward. — Part. perf. sometimes (mostly in poets) subst.: dăta, ōrum, n., gifts, presents; but not in, where dona data belong together, as in the archaic formula in.

(b).Poet. with inf.

(g).With ne.

III.In partic.

A.In milit. lang.

1.Nomina, to enroll one's self for military service, to enlist.

2.Manus lit., as a prisoner of war, to stretch forth the hands to be fettered.

3.Terga, for the usual vertere terga; tergum.

B.To grant, consent, permit.

1.Esp. in jurid. lang.: DO, DICO, ADDICO, the words employed by the praetor in the execution of his office; viz. DO in the granting of judges, actions, exceptions, etc.; DICO in pronouncing sentence of judgment; ADDICO in adjudging the property in dispute to one or the other party; Müll.

2.Datur, it is permitted, allowed, granted; with subj. clause: quaesitis diu terris, ubi sistere detur.

C.In philos. lang., to grant a proposition.

D.Designating the limit, to put, place, carry somewhere; and with se, to betake one's self somewhere.

E.Designating the effect, to cause, make, bring about, inflict, impose; (but motus dare, to make motion, to move, be moved, ). — With part. fut. pass.

IV.Aliquid alicui, to do any thing for the sake of another; to please or humor another; to give up, sacrifice any thing to another (for the more usual condonare): da hoc illi mortuae, da ceteris amicis ac familiaribus, da patriae, Sulp. ap.: aliquid auribus alicujus, Trebon. — Hence.

b.Se alicui, to give one's self up wholly, to devote, dedicate one's self to a person or thing, to serve.

V.Of discourse, to announce, tell, relate, communicate (like accipere, for to learn, to hear, v. accipio, II.; mostly ante-class. and poet.) — In pass., poet. i. q.: narratur, dicitur, fertur, etc., is said.

VI.Fabulam, to exhibit, produce a play said of the author; Don.

VII.Verba (alicui), to give empty words, i. e. to deceive, cheat; Ruhnk.; A.

VIII.Alicui aliquid (laudi, crimini, vitio, etc.), to impute, assign, ascribe, attribute a thing to any one, as a merit, a crime, a fault, etc.

IX.Alicui cenam, epulas, etc., to give one a dinner, entertain at table (freq.)

X.To grant, allow, in gen. (rare, but freq. as impers.; B. 2. supra).

-do, 1, v. a. [Sanscr. root dhā-, da-dhāmi, set, put, place; Gr.; Ger. thun, thue, that; Eng. do, deed, etc.]

I.obsol., found only in the compounds, abdo, condo, abscondo, indo, etc. This root is distinct from 1. do, Sanscr. dā, in most of the Arian langg.; Max Müller, Science of Lang. Ser. 2, p. 220, N. Y. ed.

do, acc.

of domus, v. domus init.