habeo.
to have, hold
Meaning & usage
to have, hold
Spērō ut pācem semper habeant.
to own, have (possessions)
Cavē, catapultam habeō!
to possess, have (qualities)
Annōs vīgintī habet.
to retain, maintain
to conduct, preside over
to regard, consider or account a person or thing as something
in numerō habēre
to accept, bear, endure, suffer
to affect, trouble (someone)
to enjoy, have, possess
to live, dwell somewhere; to inhabit some place
to have
Nec in publico vestimenta lavare, nec berbices tondere habeant licitum
Illud sacramentum quod juratum habeo
to want; will, shall, should
Feri eum adhuc, nam si non feriveris, ego te ferire habeo
Currens affer illum ad me, ego enim eum habeo baptizare
would
to have to; to be compelled
Ā patriā Cathalōniae sē absentāre habuērunt, et in fugam sē cōnstituērunt, ne justitia dē ipsis fieret
there be
Habet in Spīnogilō mānsum dominicātum cum casā et aliīs casticiīs sufficienter
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habeō From Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō; the latter, from earlier *haβējō, may be from *gʰeh₁bʰ-éh₁-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, to take”). Compare Old Irish gaibid (“takes, holds”), Polish gabać (“to accost, sue”). As such, it was long thought to be related to English give, though more recent research has placed this in doubt. Despite similarity in meaning and form, habeo is unrelated to English have, which is, rather, cognate with Latin capiō (“to take”). Oscan and Umbrian have cognate forms with -b-, which must reflect an original *-b-, because Proto-Italic *-β- (and therefore PIE *-bʰ-) becomes -f-, not -b-, in those languages. On the other hand, *b is a seldom-attested phoneme in PIE, whose status is still disputed. Thus, the exact origin of this word is not clear. Among the oldest attestations are the works of Plautus (circa 254 to 184 BC) and the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus (186 BC). Umbrian cognate hab- is attested in the Iguvine Tablets (oldest tablets 3rd century BC). Oscan cognate haf- is attested in the Tabula Bantina (89 BC). When used as a future in Late Latin and subsequently Romance, the pronunciation evolved into /ˈaβjo/ > /ˈajo/.
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