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habeo

Pronunciation: [ˈha.be.oː]

“habeo” is a Latin word. Its 15 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to have, hold
  2. to own, have (possessions)
  3. to possess, have (qualities)
  4. to retain, maintain
  5. to conduct, preside over
  6. to regard, consider or account a person or thing as something
  7. to accept, bear, endure, suffer
  8. to affect, trouble (someone)
  9. to enjoy, have, possess
  10. to live, dwell somewhere; to inhabit some place
  11. to have
  12. to want; will, shall, should
  13. would
  14. to have to; to be compelled
  15. there be

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō; the latter, from earlier *haβējō, may be from *gʰeh₁bʰ-éh₁-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, to take”). Compare Old Irish gaibid (“takes, holds”), Polish gabać (“to accost, sue”). As such, it was long thought to be related to English give, though more recent research has placed this in doubt. Despite similarity in meaning and form, habeo is…

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