vindico

vindico

1. first-person singular present indicative of vindicar

From vindex (“defender, protector”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯in.di.koː/, [ˈu̯ɪn̪d̪ɪkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvin.di.ko/, [ˈvin̪d̪iko]

vindicō (present infinitive vindicāre, perfect active vindicāvī, supine vindicātum); first conjugation

1. to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi)

   Synonyms: arrogo, asserō, appropriō

2. to set free, liberate, emancipate

   Synonym: līberō

3. to protect someone from (+ ab or ex aliquō)

   Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, prōtegō, tegō, dēfendō, tueor, servō, prohibeō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.4:

     Nec dii nec homines [...] ipsam [...] a crudelitate regia vindicant

     Nor gods nor men protect him from the royal cruelty

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.227–228:

     “Nōn illum nōbīs genetrīx pulcherrima tālem
     prōmīsit, Grāiumque ideō bis vindicat armīs; [...].”

     “Not such [a man] as this did his most beautiful mother promise to us, nor for this [purpose] is she protecting him — twice from Greek attacks; [...].”
     (Jupiter speaks about Venus’s mortal son, Aeneas, whom the goddess saved first from Diomedes in Iliad 5.311-318, and later during the fall of Troy in Aeneid 2.589-633. Note that although “promisit” is past tense, “vindicat” is literally present tense: Aeneas remains under Venus’s protection.)

4. to avenge, vindicate, punish a deed

   Synonym: pūniō

5. to take action against (+ in aliquem)

   Synonyms: consulō, animadvertō

6. to revenge oneself on one (+ ab or dē aliquō)

   Synonym: ulcīscor

• revindicō
• vindicātor
• vindicātum
• vindicātus

• “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vindico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vindico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare
    
  • to rescue from oblivion: aliquid ab oblivione vindicare
    
  • to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
    
• Dizionario Latino-Italiano, Olivetti

vindico

1. first-person singular present indicative of vindicar