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From Proto-Italic *toweōr, from Proto-Indo-European *tewH- (“to look favorably, protect, observe”).[1]

tueor (present infinitive tuērī, perfect active tuitus sum); second conjugation, deponent

  1. to look or gaze at, behold, watch, view
    Synonyms: videō, intueor, vīsō, spectō, īnspectō, speciō, īnspiciō, suspiciō, invīsō
    tueri transversa ― to look sideways, to squint
  2. to care for, guard, defend, protect, support, compensate or make up for
    Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, tegō, prōtegō, dēfendō, sustineō, adsum, ēripiō, arceō, servō, prohibeō
    Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
    te amo, tua tueor ― I love you and care for you
    • Dum spīrāmus tuēbimur. ― Whilst we breathe, we shall defend. Motto of the US Army 133rd Field Artillery

    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.563–564:

      “Rēs dūra et rēgnī novitās mē tālia cōgunt
      mōlīrī, et lātē fīnīs cūstōde tuērī.”
      “Difficult circumstances – and the newness of [my] realm – compel me to enact such [safeguards], and to defend with force its wide frontiers.”
  3. to uphold, keep up, maintain, preserve
    ad omnes repentinos casus turrim tueri ― to protect the tower in all events
  • The third principal part may also be tūtus sum.
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page t1079
  • “tueor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tueor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tueor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to look after, guard a person's interests, welfare: commoda alicuius tueri
    • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare
    • to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
    • to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem familiarem tueri
    • to defend, strengthen the state: rem publicam tueri, stabilire
    • to guard, maintain one's dignity: dignitatem suam tueri, defendere, retinere, obtinere
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.