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queo

queo · v. n

to be able

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Where it lives

Utrum Pater Et Filius Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber 1 · 18.73/10k
De Rerum Natura 83 · 17.03/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 23 · 9.35/10k
Andria 8 · 8.12/10k
Curculio 5 · 8.11/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9 · 7.11/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 2 · 6.88/10k
Persa 5 · 6.36/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Aulularia 4 · 5.79/10k
Cistellaria 3 · 5.74/10k

Densest 12 of 132 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. quĕo — Lewis & Short

quĕo, īvi and ii, ĭtum, v. n.etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. ?*!vay āmi, am strong or able,

I to be able, I (thou, he, etc.) can (class.; esp. freq. with a negation; Cic. does not use nequeo in the first pers. sing.; for a full account of the forms in use, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 607 sqq.; cf.: possum, polleo, valeo).—With inf.: non queo reliqua scribere, Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5: non quis, Hor. S. 2, 7, 92: non quit sentire dolorem, Lucr. 3, 647: ut quimus, Ter. And. 4, 5, 10: quod vos dicere non quitis, Arn. 3, 104: quod manu non queunt tangere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 10: queam, Hor. S. 2, 5, 2; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 5: queas, id. ib. 4, 8, 74; Hor. S. 2, 5, 10: queat, Sall. C. 58, 15: queamus, Verg. A. 10, 19: si queant, Just. 5, 4, 15: non quibam, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 31: quibat, id. Rud. 3, 1, 8; Vulg. Dan. 8, 7: quirem, Plaut. Merc. prol. 55: quiret, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 62; Tac. A. 1, 66: quirent, Stat. S. 5, 3, 60: nec credere quivi, Verg. A. 6, 463: quivit, Ter. And. 4, 1, 31; Nep. Att. 19, 2: quiit, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1: quivimus, Vulg. Dan. 13, 39: quistis, Juvenc. 2, 679: quiverunt, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 15, 1: quivere, Tac. H. 3, 25: quivero, Vulg. Exod. 32, 30: quiverit, Liv. 4, 24; Tac. A. 1, 66: quierit, Lucr. 6, 855: quiveritis, Arn. 5, 161: quiverint, Hier. in Isa. 8, 24, 13: quissent, Aus. Epigr. 139: quibo, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 25: quibunt, Arn. 7, 218: quiens, App. M. 6, p. 175, 9; in abl.: queunte, Cod. Just. 1, 3, 46: quire, Gell. 11, 9, 1: quisse, Lucr. 5, 1422.— Affirmatively: hoc queo dicere, Cic. Sen. 10, 32: habere quod queant dicere, id. Lael. 20, 71; id. Tusc. 5, 37, 108: queat, id. Rep. 2, 3, 6: queamus, id. de Or. 1, 58, 250: queunt, Sall. J. 44, 5; Col. 2, 2, 22. — In pass.: si non sarciri quitur, Caecil. ap. Diom. p. 380 P.: percipi queuntur, Att. ib.: suppleri queatur, Lucr. 1, 1045: subigi queantur, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 12: neque vi impelli, neque prece quitus sum, could not be driven, Att. ap. Diom. p. 380 P.: forma nosci non quita est, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 57.—As dep.: pollicitus ita facturum, ne sic quidem quitus est, could not, was not able, App. Mag. p. 274, 17.

2. queo — Walde–Hofmann

queo, -;»? und (seit Acc.) -ii (kontrahiert quistt usw.), -itum, -ire „ich kann, vermag, bin in der Lage* (Gegens. possum) (seit Naev, Enn. Plaut. [nón queo — nequeó; queens Quint, quiens Prisc., queunies Grom. usw., vgl. Wackernagel Synt. II 260, Löfstedt Synt. II 123), queentia f. „das Kónnen* Quint. (nach essentia, vgl. Norden N. Jb. 1925, 445: wohl nach Osthoff IF. 6, 20ff. aus Zusammenrückung einer „irgendwie“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. queo, p. 1308]

In the wild

queo Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.P10
queunt Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.5.1
quiverunt Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.1.7
queant Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.20.4
queam Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XV
queant Cicero, De Republica 1.9

6 of 550 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. queo (scan p. 1308; entry #2208). Root candidates: *guo-.

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