coaxo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [koˈak.soː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈak.so]
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek κοάξ (koáx) + -ō.
Verb
coaxō (present infinitive coaxāre, perfect active coaxāvī, supine coaxātum); first conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) to croak (make sound of a frog)
- c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 2 94:
- Cum prīmum fārī coepisset, in avītō suburbānō obstrepentīs forte rānās silēre iussit, atque ex eō negantur ibi rānae coaxāre.
- When he first started to speak, he ordered the frogs that happened to be making a great noise in the country place of his grandfather, and from then on frogs are said not to croak there.
- Cum prīmum fārī coepisset, in avītō suburbānō obstrepentīs forte rānās silēre iussit, atque ex eō negantur ibi rānae coaxāre.
Conjugation
Conjugation of coaxō (first conjugation)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
coaxō (present infinitive coaxāre, perfect active coaxāvī, supine coaxātum); first conjugation
- alternative form of coassō
Conjugation
Conjugation of coaxō (first conjugation)
Further reading
- “coaxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coaxo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
coaxo
- first-person singular present indicative of coaxar