COMMUNICATE Copy link • COMMUNICATEimpertire (less commonly impertiri) alicui aliquid or aliquem aliqua re (to give anybody his share; Vid: Zumpt: § 418): communicare aliquid cum aliquo (to make anything, whether a material or mental object, common with another: the construction communicare alicui aliquid is not classical, Vid: Held, Caes., B.G., 3, 18; Ruddim., Instit. Gramm., 2, p. 197): participem facere aliquem alicujus rei (to allow anybody to take a part or share in anything; especially of mental matters: Communicare conveys the notion of two persons receiving one whole in common; by participem facere, one of the two receives a portion only. Participare aliquid cum aliquo hardly belongs to sober prose): infundere aliquid in, with accusative (diffuse, spread, e.g., evil to the state, mala in civitatem): exponere alicui aliquid (to communicate anything, verbally): perscribere aliquid ad aliquem or (more seldom) alicui aliquid (to communicate by writing): effundere aliquid or alicui aliquid (to pour out, as it were; hence, to communicate amply or fully by speech or writing, Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 34, quite at the end.; Cic., Epistulae ad Atticum, 16, 7, 5; Cic., Oratio Pro L. Flacco, 17, 41): to communicate by friction (of things only), affricare aliquid alicui rei: to communicate anything to anybody (i. e., inform him of it), alicui impertire de re: to communicate anything to anybody verbally, in sermone exponere alicui aliquid: to communicate to anybody any plan, consilium communicare cum aliquo; aliquem participem facere consilii. I communicate to anybody something of my plan, impertio alicui aliquid consilii mei: I communicate my thoughts to anybody, cogitationes meas cum aliquo communico (I make no secret of what I am thinking about), expono alicui, quid sentiam: dico, quid sentiam (I tell anybody what I think of anything): effundo alicui omnia, quae sentio (I communicate to anybody all my thoughts): Reveal: aperire (to disclose): patefacere (to discover): in medium proferre, also proferre only (to make anything generally known, in a good sense): (the words are found in this connexion and order.) proferre et patefacere: enunciare: evulgare: divulgare (to bring to the knowledge of the multitude what ought not to be told at all, or, at least, only to confidential persons): cum hominibus communicare (to reveal to men, from God, Eccl., revelare) [Vid: also, COMMERCE]. INTR., to take the Lord’s Supper, *ad mensam sacram accedere; *sumere cenam Domini: *ex sacra cena sumere cibum. To have an internal communication: the houses communicate *domus ita sunt inter se conjunctae, ut ex altera in alteram transiri possit: or *domus transitione pervia inter se conjunctae sunt (after Verg., pervium usum habere).