compleo

• conpleō

From con- +‎ pleō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.ple.oː/, [ˈkɔmpɫ̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.ple.o/, [ˈkɔmpleo]

compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation

1. to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete

   Synonyms: impleō, expleō, repleō, suppleō, cumulō, stīpō, imbuō

   Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō

2. to cover, overwhelm
3. to occupy, set up a garrison (military)

   Synonyms: occupō, obsideō, possideō, obtineō, capiō, teneō, potior

   • Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 12:

     inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset

     occupied the ground between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline

4. (with food or drink) to fill, sate; satisfy
5. to finish, complete
6. (of a promise) to fulfil

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(All having the sense of 'finish, complete')

• Italian: compiere
• Neapolitan: cunchiere (Calabria)
• Old French: compler
• Old Sassarese: clomper
  • Sassarese: zompere

Reflexes of an assumed variant *complīre:[1]

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: cumpli
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: compìre
  • Sicilian: chiumpiri
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: complî
  • Piedmontese: conpì
  • Romagnol: ciumpì
  • Venetian: conpir
    • →? Friulian: compî
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: complir
  • Franco-Provençal: compli, camplli
  • Old French: complir
    • Middle French: complir
      • → English: comply, complish
  • Occitan: complir
• Ibero-Romance: (conserv. outcomes of /pl-/)
  • Aragonese: complir, cumplir, cumpllir
  • Asturian: cumplir
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: comprir
    • Galician: cumprir, comprir
    • Portuguese: cumprir
  • Old Spanish: cumplir, complir
    • Spanish: cumplir
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: lompiri (Campidanese)
• Vulgar Latin: *accomplīre
  • Catalan: acomplir
  • Old French: acomplir
  • Occitan: acomplir

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “complere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 981

• “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• compleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
    
  • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti