adnuo

• annuō

From ad- +‎ *nuō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈad.nu.oː/, [ˈänːuoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈad.nu.o/, [ˈäd̪nuo]

adnuō (present infinitive adnuere, perfect active adnuī, supine adnūtum); third conjugation

1. to nod assent, approval, or consent; especially, as a sign of divine approval or favor

   Synonyms: approbō, probō, cōnscīscō, scīscō, assentiō

   Antonyms: negō, recūsō, renuō, abnuō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.127-128:

     [...] Nōn adversāta petentī / adnuit, atque dolīs rīsit Cytherēa repertīs.

     [Venus] of Cythera, [who was] not against [such a] request, nodded her divine assent, and laughed at having found out [Juno’s] deceit.

   Adnuit coeptis — “[he] approved/approves' the undertakings.”

2. to favour or designate with a nod

   Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus adnue coeptis. — “Jupiter Almighty, favour [my] audacious undertakings”

3. to promise, grant

Takes a dative object.

• annūtō

• Italian: annuire
• Portuguese: anuir
• Sicilian: annuiri
• Spanish: anuir

• “adnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adnuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers