Latin

Verb

cohibeō ‎(present infinitive cohibēre, perfect active cohibuī, supine cohibitum); second conjugation

1. I hold together, contain, confine, comprise.
2. I keep (back), hinder, stay, stop, restrain.
3. I hold in check, limit, repress, subdue, tame.

Inflection

Derived terms

• cohibilis
• cohibitiō
• cohibitus

Related terms

Descendants

• Spanish: cohibir

References

• cohibeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cohibeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cohibeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    
  • to restrain, master one's passion: iracundiam continere, cohibere, reprimere
    
  • to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
    
  • to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates