arboresco

Latin

FWOTD – 21 February 2013

Etymology

From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -ēscō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.boˈreːs.koː/, [ärbɔˈreːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.boˈres.ko/, [ärboˈrɛsko]

Verb

arborēscō (present infinitive arborēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. to become a tree
   • c. 78 CE, Pliny the Elder, edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff, Naturalis Historia, book 19, chapter 23:

     namque tradunt auctores in Arabia malvas septimo mense arborescere baculorumque usum praebere.

     Indeed, authors in Arabia hand down the tradition that mallows become trees in the seventh month and see use as walking-sticks.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of arborēscō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active-only)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	arborēscō		arborēscis		arborēscit		arborēscimus		arborēscitis		arborēscunt
	imperfect	arborēscēbam		arborēscēbās		arborēscēbat		arborēscēbāmus		arborēscēbātis		arborēscēbant
	future	arborēscam		arborēscēs		arborēscet		arborēscēmus		arborēscētis		arborēscent
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	arborēscam		arborēscās		arborēscat		arborēscāmus		arborēscātis		arborēscant
	imperfect	arborēscerem		arborēscerēs		arborēsceret		arborēscerēmus		arborēscerētis		arborēscerent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		arborēsce		—		—		arborēscite		—
	future	—		arborēscitō		arborēscitō		—		arborēscitōte		arborēscuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		arborēscere			—			arborēscēns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		arborēscendī		arborēscendō		arborēscendum		arborēscendō		—		—

Derived terms

• arborēscēns

Related terms

• arbor

Descendants

• English: arboresce
• Portuguese: arborescer

References

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