adiuvit

Adiuvit is a Latin verb form meaning "he helped" or "has helped." It is the third person singular perfect active indicative of the verb adiuvare, “to help.” The infinitive form of the verb is adiuvāre, and adiuvit stems from the first-conjugation verb class.

In Latin, adiuvare is used transitively to express aiding or assisting someone or something. The action is typically directed at a direct object, for example: Caesar urbem adiuvit, meaning “Caesar helped the city.” The perfect tense, as in adiuvit, is used in narrative and historical contexts to indicate a completed action in the past, though in English it can also be rendered as “has helped” depending on the surrounding tense.

Grammatically, adiuvit follows regular first-conjugation patterns for its perfect active form, arising from the principal parts adiuvō, adiuvāre, adiuvāvī, adiūvātum. As a finite verb, it agrees with a singular third-person subject in number and person.

Frequency and context: adiuvare and its forms are common in classical Latin literature, including prose and poetry, as well as in later ecclesiastical and scholarly Latin. It is often encountered in discussions of aid, support, military or political backing, and acts of assistance in a broad sense.

See also: the verb adiuvare and its other tenses; Latin verb conjugation patterns; translations of Latin verbs in historical texts.