suesco

Latin

Etymology

PIE word
*swé

From Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sḱ-, expanded from the reflexive pronoun Proto-Indo-European *swé (self) + *dʰeh₁- (to put, place, set), thus the original sense to "set as one's own", as in the later formed suificō.[1]

Cognate with soleō, sodālis, Ancient Greek ἔθω (éthō), εἴωθα (eíōtha), ἔθνος (éthnos), ἔθος (éthos), ἦθος (êthos), Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā́) and Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (sidus).

Pronunciation

Verb

suēscō (present infinitive suēscere, perfect active suēvī, supine suētum); third conjugation

  1. (intransitive, rare, poetic) to become used or accustomed to
  2. (transitive, rare, post-Classical) to accustom, habituate, train

Usage notes

This verb is rare and poetic, and prefixed forms such as adsuēscō are more frequent.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • suesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 597