Lemma 1habeo, habere, habui, habitus

verb

to have, hold, consider, think, reason; to manage, keep; to spend/pass (time)

Morphology1 analysis

present indicative active 1st singularhab + eo · regular

Lewis & Short

key · habeoFull entry

hăbĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, n., v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. Gr., handle; Lat. capio; Germ. haben, Haft; Engl. have]

I.perf. subj. habessit; inf. haberier, and, to have, in the widest sense of the word, to hold, keep, possess, cherish, entertain, occupy, enclose, contain (cf.: teneo, possideo, etc.).

II.In gen.

A.Of personal subjects.

1.With persons or things as objects: SI INTESTATO MORITVR, CVI SVVS HERES NEC SIT, AGNATVS PROXIMVS FAMILIAM HABETO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap.: ex tui animi sententia tu uxorem habes? Cato ap.; and: faenum habet in cornu.

2.With abstr. objects: quid illos, bono genere gnatos, opinanimi animi habuisse atque habituros dum vivent? Cato ap.; nimiam spem, Cato ap.; (4, 10), 6: consolationem semper in ore atque in animo; Müll.; fidem, gratiam, honorem, rationem; these nouns. — In a play on the word lumen: Arge, jaces; quodque in tot lumina lumen habebas Exstinctum est, the light for so many lights (eyes).

(b).With inf. (analog. to the Gr. ), to have something to do, be able to do something. — with inf. or with the part. fut. pass. (ante-class. and post-Aug.), to have or be obliged to do something, I must do something.

B.Of inanim. or abstr. subjects.

III.In partic.

A.Pregn., to have or possess property (mostly absol.); qui habet, ultro appetitur: qui est pauper, aspernatur, Cic. Fragm. ap. P.; nos quod simus, quod habeamus, etc., Curius ap.; prol. 21: quid habentibus auri nunquam exstincta sitis?; so, habentes =, the wealthy.

2.With an object- or relative-clause, to have the means, ability, or knowledge, i. e. to be in a condition, to be able, to know how to do or say any thing.

(b).With a relat.-clause usually with a negative: non habeo, quid faciam.

B.To have in use, make use of, use (very rare, for the usual uti, opp. abuti); Kritz — Hence.

2.To hold, use, wield, handle, manage. — Trop.

C.To hold or keep a person or thing in any condition; to have, hold, or regard in any light; fin.; Oud. N. cr. (al. in potestate): Kritz N. cr. — with an adj. or a perf. part., to denote a lasting condition: Lorenz. — Hence.

2.With a double object, esp. freq. with the part. perf. pass., to have, hold, or possess a person or thing in any quality or capacity, as any thing; to have, hold, or possess an action as completed, finished (a pregn. circumlocution for the perf.); satis mihi videbar habere cognitum Scaevolam ex iis rebus, quas, etc.; fidem spectatam jam et diu cognitam: quantum in acie tironi sit committendum, nimium saepe expertum habemus, Planc. ap.: habeo absolutum suave ad Caesarem; neque ea res falsum (part. perf. pass.) me habuit, From this use is derived the compound perf. of the Romance languages: ho veduto, j'ai vu, qs. habeo visum, I have seen.

3.Also, with a double object, to make, render.

4.Hence.

5.To have or hold a person in any manner, to treat, use; Kritz.

6.With se, and sometimes mid. or neut., to hold or keep himself or itself in a certain manner, i. e. to be constituted or situated, to find one's self, to be, in any manner.

(a).Habere se: praeclare se res habeat (is well), si, etc.

(b).Mid.

(g).Neutr. (as also the Gr ): Tullia nostra recte valet: Terentia minus belle habuit, Dolab. ap.: qui bene habet suisque amicis est volup, id. Mil. 3, 1, 130: illasce sues sanas esse habereque recte licere spondesne? Formula emendi.

D.To hold, account, esteem, consider, regard a person or thing in any manner or as any thing; to think or believe a person or thing to be so or so; fin.: non habeo nauci Marsum augurem, Poët. ap.; fin.; also — Hence: sic habeto, or sic habeas aliquid, or with an object-clause, hold or judge thus, be convinced or persuaded, believe, know: fin.; with an object-clause. — Without sic.

2.To take, accept, bear, submit to, endure; Weissenb.

E.To hold, have possession of, occupy, a place.

2.More freq. neutr., to dwell, live anywhere (perh. only ante-class.; in good prose habito is used instead): quae Corinthum arcem altam habetis, Enn. ap. (Trag. v. 294 Vahl.): quis istic habet?: Müll.

IV.To spend, pass (time, etc.): al.

V.To have in one's mind, to know, be acquainted with: habes consilia nostra.

VI.To have as a habit, peculiarity, or characteristic.

VII.To hold, to make, do, perform, prepare, utter, pronounce, produce, cause; fin.

VIII.Habere in animo (or simply animo), with an objectclause, to have in mind, to intend, to be disposed, inclined to do any thing (=propositum habere, constituisse, decrevisse): dub (al. in animo), v. Drak. ad h. l.

IX.Habere sibi or secum aliquid, to keep to one's self (lit. and trop.) — the formula used in divorces. — Comic. transf. — Trop.

X.Of a sweetheart, to have, to possess, enjoy; (4, 7), 22: cum esset objectum, habere eum Laida.

XI.Gladiatorial t. t., of a wounded combatant: hoc habet or habet, he has that (i. e. that stroke), he is hit.

2.Transf.: egomet continuo mecum; (id est vulneratus est. Habet enim qui percussus est: et proprie de gladiatoribus dicitur, Don.). — Hence: hăbĭtus, a, um, P. a., held or kept in a certain condition, state, humor (ante-class.).

A.In gen.

1.Lit.: equus nimis strigosus et male habitus, Massur. Sabin. ap.; in the foll.

2.Trop.

B.In partic., physically, well kept, well conditioned, fleshy, corpulent: (censores) equum nimis strigosum et male habitum, sed equitem ejus uberrimum et habitissimum viderunt, etc., Massur. Sabin. ap.