quaxo

Latin

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Pronunciation

Verb

quaxō (present infinitive quaxāre, perfect active quaxāvī, supine quaxātum); first conjugation

  1. (intransitive, hapax legomenon) to croak (make sound of a frog)
    • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 258, line 27:
      Quaxāre rānae dīcuntur, cum vōcem mittunt.
      Frogs are said to croak when they make sounds.

Conjugation

References

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