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iubeo.

to authorize, to legitimate, to make lawful, to homologate, to pass (a bill or law or decision)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈjʊ.be.oː]Classical-Latin[ˈjuː.be.o]
  1. to authorize, to legitimate, to make lawful, to homologate, to pass (a bill or law or decision)

    Classical-Latin · Old-Latin · conjugation-2
  2. to bid, to command, to order

    conjugation-2
Where this word comes from

From Old Latin ioubeō, from Proto-Italic *jouðeō, from earlier *jouðejō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyowdʰéyeti, causative of Proto-Indo-European *Hyewdʰ- (“move upright”), likely an extension of *h₂ey- (“life, age”). Indirectly cognate with iūrō and iūs, aevum and iūgis, and possibly with imitor and imāgō.

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