suadeo

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European causative verb in *-éyeti from the root *sweh₂d- (“sweet”),[1][2][3] hence literally, “to make sweet, pleasing”. The stem of the original verb may have been either the zero-grade *suh₂d-éyeti,[2] as in Sanskrit सूदयति (sūdáyati, “to make tasty”), or the o-grade *swoh₂d-éyeti,[3] but in the end it was secondarily replaced with the full grade by influence of the related adjective suāvis (“sweet”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu̯aː.de.oː/, [ˈs̠u̯äːd̪eoː]
(Classical) IPA^(key): /suˈaː.de.oː/, [s̠uˈäːd̪eoː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈa.de.o/, [suˈäːd̪eo]
Note: while the word generally scans with a glide in classical poetry, the rare pronunciation of the u as a vowel (in hiatus) is attested as early as Lucretius (see quotations). Compare the similar phenomenon in suāvis, which Romance languages reflect with a hiatus.

Verb

suādeō (present infinitive suādēre, perfect active suāsī, supine suāsum); second conjugation

to recommend, advise
Synonyms: commendō, admoneō, moneō, dēlīberō, conciliō, cēnseō, praedicō, suggerō
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1157-8:
  Atque aliōs aliī irrīdent Veneremque sŭādent
  ut plācent, quoniam foedō adflictentur amōre.
  They [lovers] make fun of each other, advising to placate Venus as they're afflicted with foul love.
to urge, exhort, induce, impel, suade, persuade
Synonyms: persuādeō, perdūcō, convincō, exhortor, indūcō, moveō

Antonyms: dissuādeō, tardō, obiūrgō
- 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.264:
  hic iam galbaneōs suādēbō incendere odōrēs
  Then I would urge you to burn fragrant resin of galbanum
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.703-704:
  hīs amor, ut repetant, illīs, ut reddere nōlint,
  suādet; et ex causā pugnat uterque parī.
  Love persuades – these [men], to reclaim [their betrothed women], and those [men], [who] do not wish to return [the women]; and so from the same motive each one of them fights.
  (Phoebe (daughter of Leucippus) and Hilaeira, already betrothed to Lynceus of Messene and Idas of Messene, had been abducted by Castor and Pollux.)
to advocate, promote, support

Conjugation

This verb has only limited passive conjugation; only third-person passive forms are attested in surviving sources.

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Derived terms

Descendants

→ English: suade
→ Italian: suadere
→ Portuguese: suadir
→ Spanish: suadir

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959), “su̯ād-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1039f.
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*su̯eh₂d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 606f.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “suāvis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594