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• conpleō

From con- + pleō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pɫe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.ple.o]

compleō (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation

1. to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete

   Synonyms: impleō, expleō, repleō, suppleō, cumulō, stīpō, imbuō

   Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō

   Pōculum complēvit et hausit. Aquam et vīnum miscuit. Collāpsus est. ― He filled the cup and drank it. He mixed water and wine. He collapsed.

2. to cover, overwhelm
3. to occupy, set up a garrison (military)

   Synonyms: occupō, obsideō, possideō, obtineō, capiō, teneō, potior

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita I.12:

     inter Palatinum Capitolinumque collem [...] complesset

     occupied the ground between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline

4. (with food or drink) to fill, sate; satisfy
5. to finish, complete
6. (of a promise) to fulfil

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

(Note: all terms have the sense of "finish, complete".)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “complere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 981

• “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “compleo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
    
  • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti