Lemma 1tu

pronoun

you (sing.); thou/thine/thee/thy (PERS); yourself/thyself (REFLEX)

Morphology2 analyses

masculine nominative singulart + u · regular

feminine nominative singulart + u · regular

Lewis & Short

key · tuFull entry

tū, acc.

I.gen. sing. tis; ted, et saep.; gen. plur. vestrorum or vostrorum, Pac. ap.; fem. vostrarum; ego init., pers. pron. [Sanscr. tva, tvam; Gr.; Dor.; Engl. thou, etc.], thou.

II.In gen.: nec pol homo quisquam faciet impune animatus Hoc nisi tu, Enn. ap. (Ann. v. 101 Vahl.); imitated by: unus erit quem tu tolles in caerula caeli Templa, Enn. ap. Müll. (Ann. v. 66 Vahl.). — Fem.; et saep.: vosne velit an me regnare era, Fors, Enn. ap. (Ann. v. 203 Vahl.).

2.Emphatic.

(a).Jam tibi cerebrum Dispercutiam, excetra tu.

(b).Esp. in opp. to another pron. pers.

(g).Poet., in second clause of a command, etc.

B.With an emphatic -te or -met suffixed (only in the forms tute or tutemet, tibimet, tete, vosmet, and vobismet): o Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti, Enn. ap. P. (Ann. v. 113 Vahl.): bene mones: tute ipse cunctas, id. ap. (Com. v. 3 Vahl. p. 153): Al. Quae ex te audivi: ut urbem maximam Expugnavisses regemque Pterelam tute occideris. Am. Egone istuc dixi? Al. Tute istic, etiam astante hoc Sosia, a, 2. — Acc.; vos quoque in eā re consilio me adjuvate.

III.In partic.

A.Tibi, as a dativus ethicus (cf. Ruddim. II. p. 126, n. 44)

B.Vos, addressed to one person as a representative of more than one, or with a collective noun in the sing.: Drak.; imitated by.

C.Gen. plur. for poss. pron.

D.Mea tu, my love, my dear, my darling, in familiar language.