haereo.
to stick, stick fast; cling; cleave; adhere; hang, hang on or to; hold fast, be fastened; hang on; be caught; take root
Meaning & usage
to stick, stick fast; cling; cleave; adhere; hang, hang on or to; hold fast, be fastened; hang on; be caught; take root
Nē hāc rē haereāmus in praesentī.
to keep close (to), attach oneself (to), follow; pursue
to remain fixed, abide, keep at, continue, persist
to be brought to a standstill, to be suspended
to be stuck in a situation; to be at a loss; to be embarrassed; hesitate
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from a Proto-Italic form of the shape *haizēō, the root of which is unknown: traditionally conjectured to be from Proto-Indo-European *gʰays- (“to adhere, to stick, to be fixed”) and cognate with Latvian gaist (“to dissipate”), Lithuanian gai̇̃šti (“to linger, be slow”), though this root is problematic due to the presence of *a, the unclear morphology, and the semantic gap between purported cognates. The expected form of the supine/past participle stem would be *haest- (compare gerō, gessī, gestum); the actual stem haes- is presumably remodeled by analogy, either (within the paradigm) to the perfect stem, or (across paradigms) to the supine stems of other verbs such as currō, cursum; verrō, versum.
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