emō
Meaning
- transitiveto buy, purchase
Quantīs haec pōma ēmistī?
How much have you paid for these fruits?discipuli enim eius abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent
so his disciples had gone away unto the city to buy foodc. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Ioannes.4.8 - figurativelyto acquire, procure
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pecūniā rem capiō.pretiō acquīrōChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Emere · Mercari · Redimere
1. Emere means to buy, where furnishing one’s self with the article is the main point, the price the next point, like πρίασθαι; whereas mercari (from ἀμέργειν) means to buy, as a more formal transaction, generally as the mercantile conclusion of a bargain, like ἐμπολᾶν. 2. Emere refers to the proper objects of trade; redimere to things which, according to the laws of justice and morality, do not constitute articles of trade, and which the buyer might either claim as his due, or ought to receive freely and gratuitously, such as peace, justice, love, and so forth. Cic. Sext. 30, 36. Quis autem rex qui illo anno non aut emendum sibi quod non habebat, aut redimendum quod habebat, arbitrabatur? (iv. 116.)
Conjugation conjugation 3
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | emō | emēbam | emam | ēmī | ēmeram | ēmerō |
| 2nd sg. | emis | emēbās | emēs | ēmistī | ēmerās | ēmeris |
| 3rd sg. | emit | emēbat | emet | ēmit | ēmerat | ēmerit |
| 1st pl. | emimus | emēbāmus | emēmus | ēmimus | ēmerāmus | ēmerimus |
| 2nd pl. | emitis | emēbātis | emētis | ēmistis | ēmerātis | ēmeritis |
| 3rd pl. | emunt | emēbant | ement | ēmērunt ēmēre | ēmerant | ēmerint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | emam | emerem | ēmerim | ēmissem |
| 2nd sg. | emās | emerēs | ēmerīs | ēmissēs |
| 3rd sg. | emat | emeret | ēmerit | ēmisset |
| 1st pl. | emāmus | emerēmus | ēmerīmus | ēmissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | emātis | emerētis | ēmerītis | ēmissētis |
| 3rd pl. | emant | emerent | ēmerint | ēmissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | emor | emēbar | emar |
| 2nd sg. | emeris emere | emēbāris emēbāre | emēris emēre |
| 3rd sg. | emitur | emēbātur | emētur |
| 1st pl. | emimur | emēbāmur | emēmur |
| 2nd pl. | emiminī | emēbāminī | emēminī |
| 3rd pl. | emuntur | emēbantur | ementur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | emar | emerer |
| 2nd sg. | emāris emāre | emerēris emerēre |
| 3rd sg. | emātur | emerētur |
| 1st pl. | emāmur | emerēmur |
| 2nd pl. | emāminī | emerēminī |
| 3rd pl. | emantur | emerentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | eme | emere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | emite | emiminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | emitō | emitor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | emitō | emitor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | emitōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | emuntō | emuntor |
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | emere | emī |
| perfect infinitive | ēmisse | ēmptum esse ēmtum esse |
| future infinitive | ēmptūrum esse ēmtūrum esse | ēmptum īrī ēmtum īrī |
| present participle | emēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | ēmptus ēmtus, ēmpta, ēmptā, ēmptae, ēmptam, ēmptārum, ēmptās, ēmpte, ēmptī, ēmptīs, ēmptō, ēmptōrum, ēmptōs, ēmta, ēmtā, ēmtae, ēmtam, ēmtārum, ēmtās, ēmte, ēmtī, ēmtīs, ēmtō, ēmtōrum, ēmtōs |
| future participle | ēmptūrus ēmtūrus, ēmptūra, ēmptūrā, ēmptūrae, ēmptūram, ēmptūrārum, ēmptūrās, ēmptūre, ēmptūrī, ēmptūrīs, ēmptūrō, ēmptūrōrum, ēmptūrōs, ēmptūrum, ēmtūra, ēmtūrā, ēmtūrae, ēmtūram, ēmtūrārum, ēmtūrās, ēmtūre, ēmtūrī, ēmtūrīs, ēmtūrō, ēmtūrōrum, ēmtūrōs, ēmtūrum | emendus emundus, emenda, emendā, emendae, emendam, emendārum, emendās, emende, emendīs, emendōrum, emendōs, emunda, emundā, emundae, emundam, emundārum, emundās, emunde, emundī, emundīs, emundō, emundōrum, emundōs, emundum |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- magno or male emere
- to buy dearly.
- parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- to buy cheaply.
- emeritis stipendiis (Sall. Iug. 84. 2)
- after having completed one's service.
is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum, etc., Plaut. Capt. prol. 19: qui puellam ab eo emerat, id. Rud. prol. 59: emit hosce de praeda, id. Capt. prol. 34; 1, 2, 2; id. Epid. 1, 1, 62: aliquid de aliquo, id. Curc. 2, 3, 64; Cic. Att. 10, 5, 3; 13, 31, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6.—With gen. or abl. pretii (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 444): Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili. Ep. Quot minis? Th. Quadraginta minis, Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 49 sq.; so, quanti, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41: tanti, quanti, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59: minoris aut pluris, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 7; id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Att. 10, 5, 3 al.: duodeviginti minis, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 74: duobus milibus nummum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: magno, parvo, id. Att. 13, 29 fin.: immenso quaedam, Suet. Calig. 39 al.: bene, i. e. cheap, Cic. Att. 1, 13 fin.; 12, 23, 3: male, i. e. dear, id. ib. 2, 4, 1; cf. care, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238: quatuor tabernas in publicum, for the public, Liv. 39, 44; 44, 16 fin.: piper in libras, by the pound, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 28: fundum in diem, on time, on credit, Nep. Att. 9, 5: per assem et libram, i. e. to adopt, Suet. Aug. 64 al.—Perf. part. pass. as subst. quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt, through buying and selling, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74; so in jurid. lang.: ex empto, Dig. 17, 1, 14; cf. the title: De actionibus empti et venditi, Dig. 19, 1; Cod. Just. 4, 49.— Prov.: emere oportet, quem oboedire velis tibi, Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 2.—aliquando desinat ea se putare posse emere, quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62; cf.: sententias (judicum), id. Clu. 36 fin.; and: animos centurionum, Tac. H. 4, 57: ex his (tribunis plebis) emitur ab inimicis meis is, quem, etc., Cic. Sest. 33, 72: militem, Tac. H. 1, 5 fin.; Suet. Galb. 15: exercitum, Flor. 3, 1, 9: percussorem in aliquem, Curt. 4, 1 et saep.: aliquem beneficiis, to gain over, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57; cf. Verg. G. 1, 31: aliquem dote, Ov. M. 8, 54: spem pretio, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 11: immortalitatem morte, Quint. 9, 3, 71; cf.: aeternum nomen sanguine, Ov. Am. 2, 10, 32: pulmenta laboribus, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48: voluptatem dolore, id. ib. 1, 2, 55 et saep.—With a clause as object, Sil. 7, 620: furtis in manibus emptum est Oedipodae sedisse loco, Stat. Th. 1, 163: quantine emptum velit Hannibal, ut nos Vertentes terga aspiciat? Sil. 10, 287; Just. 23, 2, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *emō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), with excrescent p in ēmptum. The origin of the perfect form is slightly more convoluted. According to De Vaan and Rix, it may have originated from a Proto-Indo-European reduplicated stative form. However, the origin of Latin long-vowel perfects is generally disputed, and other linguists suggest it may have derived from a Narten-type present. Numerous related verbs such as sūmō or dēmō have a perfect stem ending in -psī. De Vaan argues that these new stems are innovative, and were formed after these related verbs had become synchronically unidentifiable with emō. Cognate with Lithuanian im̃ti, Old Church Slavonic имѫ (imǫ) and possibly Old Armenian իմանամ (imanam). Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to take or give one's due”), with its descendants English nim, Danish nemme, Dutch nemen, German nehmen, West Frisian nimme, Ancient Greek νέμω (némō), Old Irish ar·foím and Old Irish do·eim.
- Asturiandesimirfrom Vulgar Latin *disemere