foveo

Inherited from Proto-Italic *foɣʷeō, from earlier *θoɣʷejō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰogʷʰéyeti, from *dʰegʷʰ- (“to warm”). The perfect form may have evolved from earlier *fowe-wai.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.we.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ve.o]

foveō (present infinitive fovēre, perfect active fōvī, supine fōtum); second conjugation

1. to warm, keep warm
2. to nurture, cherish, foster

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāscor, pāscō, sustentō, alō

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.443:

     quae facitis nīdōs et plūmīs ōva fovētis

     [You birds], who build nests, and with soft feathers nurture your eggs

3. (medicine, of a wound) to foment, bathe
4. to favor, encourage, comfort

   Synonym: cōnsōlō

5. to support, assist

   Synonyms: adiūtō, iuvō, adiuvō, assistō, succurrō, sublevō, prōficiō, prōsum, faveō, adsum

   Antonym: officiō

• fōmes

• “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “foveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “foveo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238