demonstro
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmon.stroː/, [deːˈmõː.stroː]
Verb
dēmōnstrō (present infinitive dēmōnstrāre, perfect active dēmōnstrāvī, supine dēmōnstrātum); first conjugation
- I show, demonstrate, prove
- 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- I point out
- I draw attention to
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.
2At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Related terms
- dēmōnstrābilis
- dēmōnstrātiō
- dēmōnstrātīvus
Descendants
- Catalan: demostrar
- → Dutch: demonstreren
- → English: demonstrate
- Esperanto: demonstri
- Ido: demonstrar
- French: démontrer
- → German: demonstrieren
- Italian: dimostrare
- Old French: demonstrer
- Old Portuguese: demostrar
- Galician: demostrar
- Portuguese: demonstrar
- Old Occitan: demostrar
- → Romanian: demonstra
- → Russian: демонстри́ровать (demonstrírovatʹ)
- Spanish: demostrar
References
- demonstro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- demonstro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demonstro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
- to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
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