innovo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-nŏvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to renew, alter.

I Lit.: plurima innovare instituit, Dig. 1, 2, 2 fin. —So in part. pass. : innŏ-vātus , a, um, renewed , Min. Fel. Oct. 11 fin. ; Lact. 7, 22 med.

II Transf.: se ad aliquam rem, to return to a thing : se ad suam intemperantiam, Cic. Pis. 36, 89.—As a translation of καινιεῖ, Vulg. Eccli. 38, 30: vox mallei innovat aurem, the noise of the hammer is ever in his ears.

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