iuvo – Latin verb conjugation

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(Ind. Present 1.sg.): iuvō; juvō

Active Nominal Forms

Infinitive: iuvā́re
Present participle: iuvēns; iuvéntis
Future participle: iūvúrus
Gerund: iuvándum
Gerundive: iuvándus

Passive Nominal Forms

Infinitive: iuvā́re
Perfect participle: iūvum

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Translations

delight, to give pleasure to

gratify, to please

pleasure, to give pleasure to

save, to help someone to survive, or rescue someone

Etymology

Uncertain. The word probably originates from a PIE reduplicated present *h₁íHewHeti (“to help”), from the root *h₁ewH-. This same PIE verb may be the source of Hittite [Term?] (/⁠iyauwatta⁠⁠/, “to be healed, recover”). Proto-Indo-European *h₁íHewHeti may have produced an athematic Proto-Italic verb *iow-, which then became iuvere. The form iuvere is likely the source of iuvō, -āre, although the exact process of derivation is unclear. It may have developed as an iterative to iuvere or it may have emerged as a back-formation from adiuvō, -āre, which—according to this theory—would have derived from ad- + iuvere via the same pattern as pellō, pellere and appellō, appellāre. It is unusual for PIE *-ew- to yield Latin Latin *-u-. De Vaan suggests that iuvere may have replaced earlier *iovere by analogy with iuvāre, which itself—if the back-formation hypothesis is accepted—may have replaced earlier *iovāre by analogy with adiuvō.

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