vindico

vindico

1. first-person singular present indicative of vindicar

From vindex (“defender, protector”) + -ō (“denominative”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪn.dɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvin.di.ko]

vindicō (present infinitive vindicāre, perfect active vindicāvī, supine vindicātum); first conjugation

1. to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi)

   Synonyms: arrogō, asserō, appropriō, ascīscō

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:

     Ita fac, mī Lūcīlī: vindicā tē tibi, et tempus quod adhūc aut auferēbātur aut subripiēbātur aut excidēbat collige et servā.

     Do it this way, my dear Lucilius: You ought to claim [it] as your own, and collect and save that time which till now either was being taken [from you], or was stolen, or else was [simply] slipping away.
     (Seneca’s timeless self-help advice begins emphatically with the second person imperatives “fac,” “vindica,” “collige,” and “serva,” as well as the vocative “tu” and dative “tibi.” An alternative translation with the meaning below: “You ought to free yourself” [from others’ influence].)

2. to set free, liberate, emancipate

   Synonyms: līberō, asserō, manūmittō, eximō

3. to protect someone from (+ ab or ex aliquō)

   Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, prōtegō, tegō, dēfendō, tueor, servō, prohibeō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.4:

     Nec dii nec homines [...] ipsam [...] a crudelitate regia vindicant

     Nor gods nor men protect him from the royal cruelty

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.227–228:

     “Nōn illum nōbīs genetrīx pulcherrima tālem
     prōmīsit, Grāiumque ideō bis vindicat armīs; [...].”

     “Not such [a man] as this did his most beautiful mother promise to us, nor for this [purpose] is she protecting him — twice from Greek attacks; [...].”
     (Jupiter speaks about Venus’s mortal son, Aeneas, whom the goddess saved first from Diomedes in Iliad 5.311-318, and later during the fall of Troy in Aeneid 2.589-633. Note that although “promisit” is past tense, “vindicat” is literally present tense: Aeneas remains under Venus’s protection.)

4. to avenge, vindicate, punish a deed

   Synonym: pūniō

5. to take action against (+ in aliquem)

   Synonyms: consulō, animadvertō

6. to revenge oneself on one (+ ab or dē aliquō)

   Synonym: ulcīscor

• revindicō
• vindicātiō
• vindicātor
• vindicātum
• vindicātus

• “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vindico”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare
    
  • to rescue from oblivion: aliquid ab oblivione vindicare
    
  • to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
    
• Dizionario Latino-Italiano, Olivetti

vindico

1. first-person singular present indicative of vindicar