coest

Latin

Etymology

con- + est (see sum). Compare Russian сбы́ться (sbýtʹsja, “to come true, happen”), containing the same two elements + a reflexive particle.

Pronunciation

Verb

coest (present infinitive coesse, perfect active cōnfuit, future participle cōnfutūrus); irregular conjugation, irregular, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

  1. (archaic, rare) to happen, to be accomplished
    • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.3.66–68, (lines 939–941):
      Acr. Datne ab se mulier operam?
      Per. Lepidissume et compsissume.
      Acr. Confido confuturum.
      ubi facta erit conlatio nostrarum malitiarum,
      haud vereor ne nos subdola perfidia pervincamur.
      • Translation by Paul Nixon
        Is the girl herself helping us?
        Oh, delightfully, toutafaitly!
        I trust things will turn out well.
        When we've lumped together our talents for mischief,
        I have no fear of our being beaten at artful wiles.
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 1.1.138–140:
      sin eveniat quod volo,
      in Pamphilo ut nil sit morae, restat Chremes,
      qui mi exorandus est: et spero confore.
      • Translation by Henry Thomas Riley
        If it should turn out, as I wish,
        that there is no delay on the part of Pamphilus, Chremes remains
        to be prevailed upon by me; and I do hope that all will go well.
  2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) to occur at the same time, to coexist
    • William of Saint Thierry, Meditativae orationes 1.7.52:
      Est autem praescientia tua, Deus, ipsa sapientia tua, quae ab aeterno tibi aeternaliter coest, (etiam si nulla esset creatura) […]
      Moreover, Thy foreknowledge, O my God, is one thing with Thy wisdom, which is with Thee from and to all eternity, and so would it have been with Thee, had never a creature existed.

Conjugation
   Conjugation of coest (highly irregular, suppletive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — coest — — —
imperfect — — coerat — — —
future — — coerit — — —
perfect — — cōnfuit — — —
pluperfect — — cōnfuerat — — —
future perfect — — cōnfuerit — — —
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — cōnsit — — —
imperfect — — coesset,
cōnforet		 — — —
perfect — — cōnfuerit — — —
pluperfect — — cōnfuisset — — —
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives coesse cōnfuisse cōnfutūrum esse,
cōnfore		 — — —
participles — — cōnfutūrus — — —

References
  • “consum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “confore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confuit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • coesse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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