timeo

From a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to choke", related to Vedic Sanskrit तम् (tam, “to choke”) and Sanskrit तम् (tam, “breathless, difficulty breathing”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.me.oː/, [ˈtɪ.me.oː]

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timeō (present infinitive timēre, perfect active timuī); second conjugation, no passive

1. I fear, am afraid
   • c. 50 BCE, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae :

     Stultum est timere, quod vitare non potest.

     Fearing what cannot be avoided is foolish.

   • A phrase generally attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

     Hominem unius libri timeo.

     I fear the man of one book.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.48:

     Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

     Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans and the gifts they are bearing.

   • Thomas Aquinas :

     Timeo hominem unius libri.

• The verb timeō is a Latin verb of fearing.

• (fear): vereor

• timidē
• timiditās
• timidulē
• timōrātus

• timeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• timeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• timeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette