quaxo
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷak.soː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷak.so]
Verb
quaxō (present infinitive quaxāre, perfect active quaxāvī, supine quaxātum); first conjugation
- (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
Conjugation of quaxō (first conjugation, no passive)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | quaxō | quaxās | quaxat | quaxāmus | quaxātis | quaxant | ||||||
| imperfect | quaxābam | quaxābās | quaxābat | quaxābāmus | quaxābātis | quaxābant | |||||||
| future | quaxābō | quaxābis | quaxābit | quaxābimus | quaxābitis | quaxābunt | |||||||
| perfect | quaxāvī | quaxāvistī | quaxāvit | quaxāvimus | quaxāvistis | quaxāvērunt, quaxāvēre | |||||||
| pluperfect | quaxāveram | quaxāverās | quaxāverat | quaxāverāmus | quaxāverātis | quaxāverant | |||||||
| future perfect | quaxāverō | quaxāveris | quaxāverit | quaxāverimus | quaxāveritis | quaxāverint | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | quaxem | quaxēs | quaxet | quaxēmus | quaxētis | quaxent | ||||||
| imperfect | quaxārem | quaxārēs | quaxāret | quaxārēmus | quaxārētis | quaxārent | |||||||
| perfect | quaxāverim | quaxāverīs | quaxāverit | quaxāverīmus | quaxāverītis | quaxāverint | |||||||
| pluperfect | quaxāvissem | quaxāvissēs | quaxāvisset | quaxāvissēmus | quaxāvissētis | quaxāvissent | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | quaxā | — | — | quaxāte | — | ||||||
| future | — | quaxātō | quaxātō | — | quaxātōte | quaxantō | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | quaxāre | — | quaxāns | — | |||||||||
| future | quaxātūrum esse | — | quaxātūrus | — | |||||||||
| perfect | quaxāvisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | quaxātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| quaxandī | quaxandō | quaxandum | quaxandō | quaxātum | quaxātū | ||||||||
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.