consero

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.se.roː/, [ˈkõːs̠ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.se.ro/, [ˈkɔnsero]

From con- +‎ serō (“sow, plant”).

cōnserō (present infinitive cōnserere, perfect active cōnsēvī, supine cōnsatum); third conjugation

1. to sow or plant with or in
2. to sow, plant

• The fourth principal part may be cōnsitum or cōnsatum.

From con- +‎ serō (“join or bind together”).

cōnserō (present infinitive cōnserere, perfect active cōnseruī, supine cōnsertum); third conjugation

1. to fasten, connect, entwine, tie, join or bind into a whole

   Synonyms: colligō, illigō, ligō, adalligō, dēligō, cōnfīgō, iniungō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō

   Antonyms: absolvō, persolvō, solvō, distrahō, dissolvō, explicō, rumpō, sēparō

2. to unite or bring together

   Synonyms: conferō, convehō, contrahō, congerō, contribuō, committō, cōgō, stīpō, glomerō, compellō

3. (with manum or manus) to engage in close combat, join battle
4. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to fold or enfold
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.24.33:

     Parum inquam dormiēs, modicum dormītābis, pauxillum manūs cōnserēs ut quiēscās. (future active indicative)

     Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest [...].
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

• “consero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to come to close quarters: manum (us) conserere cum hoste