madesco
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈdeːs.koː/, [mäˈd̪eːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈdes.ko/, [mäˈd̪ɛsko]
Verb
madēscō (present infinitive madēscere, perfect active maduī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to become wet, moist
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.197–198:
- Postera lūx Hyadas, Taurīnae cornua frontis,
ēvocat, et multā terra madēscit aquā.- The next [day], the starlight of the Hyades – the horns of the brow of Taurus – is summoned, and with much rain the earth is moistened.
(The Hyades (mythology) were bringers of rain; see also: Hyades (star cluster); Taurus (constellation).)
- The next [day], the starlight of the Hyades – the horns of the brow of Taurus – is summoned, and with much rain the earth is moistened.
- Postera lūx Hyadas, Taurīnae cornua frontis,
Conjugation
References
- “madesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “madesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- madesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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