tabesco

Latin

Etymology

From tābeō +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

Verb

tābēscō (present infinitive tābēscere, perfect active tābuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to gradually melt or dissolve
  2. to dwindle away, waste away

Conjugation
   Conjugation of tābēscō (third conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present tābēscō tābēscis tābēscit tābēscimus tābēscitis tābēscunt
imperfect tābēscēbam tābēscēbās tābēscēbat tābēscēbāmus tābēscēbātis tābēscēbant
future tābēscam tābēscēs tābēscet tābēscēmus tābēscētis tābēscent
perfect tābuī tābuistī tābuit tābuimus tābuistis tābuērunt,
tābuēre
pluperfect tābueram tābuerās tābuerat tābuerāmus tābuerātis tābuerant
future perfect tābuerō tābueris tābuerit tābuerimus tābueritis tābuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present tābēscam tābēscās tābēscat tābēscāmus tābēscātis tābēscant
imperfect tābēscerem tābēscerēs tābēsceret tābēscerēmus tābēscerētis tābēscerent
perfect tābuerim tābuerīs tābuerit tābuerīmus tābuerītis tābuerint
pluperfect tābuissem tābuissēs tābuisset tābuissēmus tābuissētis tābuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — tābēsce — — tābēscite —
future — tābēscitō tābēscitō — tābēscitōte tābēscuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives tābēscere tābuisse — — — —
participles tābēscēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
tābēscendī tābēscendō tābēscendum tābēscendō — —

Derived terms

References
  • “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tabesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere
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