# adhibeo
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* adibeō, athibeō (in manuscripts)

### Etymology

From ad- +‎ habeō (“have”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /adˈhi.be.oː/, [äd̪ˈ(ɦ)ɪbeoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /aˈdi.be.o/, [äˈd̪iːbeo]

### Verb

adhibeō (present infinitive adhibēre, perfect active adhibuī, supine adhibitum); second conjugation
* (to extend something toward another): to extend, hold out
** c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.5.38–39:Quīn adhibuistī, dum istaec loquēre, tympanum? nam tē cinaedum esse arbitror magis quam virum.Why didn't you hold out a tambourine while saying this? 'cause I think you're more of a catamite than a man.
** c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.452–456:Nōn tamen ūlla magis praesēns fortūna labōrum est, quam sī quis ferrō potuit rescindere summum ulceris ōs: alitur vitium vīvitque tegendō, dum medicās adhibēre manūs ad vulnera pāstor abnegat, et meliōra deōs sedet ōmina poscēns.However there isn't any success of the efforts more present than if someone could cut with iron the top opening of the ulcer: the problem is nourished and lives by concealment, while the shepherd doesn't allow medical hands to hold out to the wound, and sits asking the gods for better omens.
* (to apply one's self or devote attention to something): to attend (to), handle, look after
* to apply, adopt, employ
    Synonyms: adoptō, assūmō, sūmō, ūtor, suscipiō, vēscor, ūsūrpō, accipiō, indūcō, ineō, aggredior
* to summon, call upon, invite
    Synonyms: arcesso, invito, accio, excio
** c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 2.132–135: […] 'Officium crās prīmō sōle mihī peragendum in valle Quirīnī.' 'Quae causa officiī?' 'Quid quaeris? nūbit amīcus, nec multōs adhibet. […] […] 'A ceremony tomorrow I must attend in the valley of Quirinus at sunrise.' 'What's the ceremony for?' 'Why do you want to know? A friend's getting married to a man, and he doesn't invite too many.' […]
* to add

#### Derived terms

* adhibitiō
* adhibitus

#### Related terms

* abhibeō
* antehabeō
* cohibeō
* diribeō
* exhibeō
* habeō
* inhibeō
* perhibeō
* posthabeō
* praehibeō
* prohibeō
* ratihabeō
* redhibeō

#### Descendants

* English: adhibit
* Italian: adibire
* Spanish: adhibir

### References

* “adhibeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “adhibeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* adhibeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to exert oneself: contentionem adhibere to consult a person, take his advice: aliquem in or ad consilium adhibere to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere to restrain some one: frenos adhibere alicui to show that one is serious: severitatem adhibere to exercise one's cruelty on some one: crudelitatem adhibere in aliquem to use violence against some one: vim adhibere, facere alicui to observe moderation, be moderate: modum tenere, retinere, servare, adhibere to show moderation in a matter: moderationem, modum adhibere in aliqua re to pray to God: adhibere deo preces to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium to use some one's evidence: aliquem testem adhibere