abnuo

== Latin == === Alternative forms === abnueō (pre-classical) amnuō (post-classical) === Etymology === From ab- (“from, away from”) +‎ *nuō (“nod”), literally “to reject by a nod”. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈab.nu.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈab.nu.o] === Verb === abnuō (present infinitive abnuere, perfect active abnuī, supine abnuitum); third conjugation (literally, rare, often in conjunction with adnuō) to say no, to nod in negation to refuse, reject Synonyms: recūsō, negō, renuō Antonyms: adnuō, aiō 248 CE – 258 CE, Cyprian, Letters 65.3 in Corpus Vindobonense (volume III, part 2), Franz Pauly, Vienna (1871), page 724, lines 3–4: (poetic or post-classical, chiefly of inanimate subjects) to not admit of (military, very rare) to decline service to deny c. 310 CE, Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Epitome 31 (36) in Corpus Vindobonense (volume IXX), Samuel Brandt, Vienna (1890), page 706, lines 10–12: Epicūrī doctrīna haec est inprīmīs, nullam esse prōvidentiam, et īdem deōs esse nōn abnuit: utrumque contrā ratiōnem. Chiefly, the doctrine of Epicurus is that there is no Providence, and he also denies not the existence of gods: both go against reason. ==== Usage notes ==== The figurative meaning has almost completely overtaken the literal one. The word is a favourite of Livy and Tacitus. Older authors prefer the negative formula “haud abnuō”, while authors after the time of Tacitus use “nōn abnuō”. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== abnuitiō abnūtīvus abnutō ==== Descendants ==== → Portuguese: abnuir → Spanish: abnuir === References === “abnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “abnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers abnuo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication “abnuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “abnuō” in volume 1, column 112, line 52 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present