habeo

Etymology
From or  (< earlier *xaβējō, with voiceless velar fricative, if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic); the latter from *xaβējō may be from *gʰeh₁bʰ-éh₁-ye-ti, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

is not a cognate, despite similarity in meaning and form; it is instead cognate with through Proto-Indo-European.

Oscan and Umbrian have cognate forms with -b-, which must reflect an original, because Proto-Italic (and therefore PIE ) becomes -f-, not -b-, in those languages. On the other hand, is a seldom-attested phoneme in PIE, whose status is still disputed. Thus, the exact origin of this word is not clear.

Among the oldest attestations are the works of Plautus (circa 254 to 184 BC) and the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus (186 BC). Umbrian cognate hab- attested in the Iguvine Tablets (oldest tablets 3rd century BC). Oscan cognate haf- attested in the Tabula Bantina (89 BC).

When used as a future in Late Latin and subsequently Romance, the pronunciation evolved into /ˈaβjo/ > /ˈajo/.

Verb

 * 1) to have, hold
 * O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.
 * O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?
 * 1) to own, have possessions
 * 2) to possess, have qualities
 * 3) * Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.73
 * triginta ... annos habere
 * to be thirty years old
 * 1) * Sallust, Bellum Catalinae
 * Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
 * For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and possessed forever.
 * 1) to retain, maintain
 * 2) to conduct, preside over
 * 3) to regard, consider or account a person or thing as something
 * 4) to accept, bear, endure
 * 5)  to affect, trouble (someone)
 * 6)  to have
 * 7)  to want; will, shall, should
 * 8)  would
 * 9)  to have to; to be compelled
 * 10)  there be
 * 1) to accept, bear, endure
 * 2)  to affect, trouble (someone)
 * 3)  to have
 * 4)  to want; will, shall, should
 * 5)  would
 * 6)  to have to; to be compelled
 * 7)  there be
 * 1)  to want; will, shall, should
 * 2)  would
 * 3)  to have to; to be compelled
 * 4)  there be
 * 1)  would
 * 2)  to have to; to be compelled
 * 3)  there be
 * 1)  there be
 * 1)  there be

Usage notes

 * In Late Latin, as the classical synthetic future tense began to decline in speech from phonetic changes, one of the various periphrases thereof was to use the present inflections of habeo with the infinitive; originally this construction was strictly modal:
 * Late 2nd century CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Book 20, 10,2:
 * Eventually it became the popular way to express the future tense in Romance:
 * Early 5th century CE, Augustine, In Evangelium Ioannis Tractatus, I, 4,2:
 * Early 5th century CE, Augustine, In Evangelium Ioannis Tractatus, I, 4,2:

Descendants

 * Balkan Romance:
 * Dalmatian:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Padanian:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Padanian:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Oïl:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Forms perhaps influenced by deriv's of :
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old
 * Insular Romance:
 * Old