nausco

Latin

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Etymology

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

Verb

nauscō (present infinitive nauscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems (hapax legomenon)

  1. (intransitive, of beans) to open in the shape of a ship
    • [1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 168, line 5:
      Nauscit, cum grānum fābae sē nāscendī grātiā aperit, quod sit nōn dissimile nāvis fōrmae.
      When a bean opens itself for germinating, which is not dissimilar to the shape of a ship, we say nauscit.]

Conjugation

   Conjugation of nauscō (third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present nauscō nauscis nauscit nauscimus nauscitis nauscunt
imperfect nauscēbam nauscēbās nauscēbat nauscēbāmus nauscēbātis nauscēbant
future nauscam nauscēs nauscet nauscēmus nauscētis nauscent
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present nauscam nauscās nauscat nauscāmus nauscātis nauscant
imperfect nauscerem nauscerēs nausceret nauscerēmus nauscerētis nauscerent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — nausce — — nauscite —
future — nauscitō nauscitō — nauscitōte nauscuntō
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present nauscere — nauscēns —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
nauscendī nauscendō nauscendum nauscendō — —

References

  • “nausco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nausco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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