ausculto

See also: auscultó and auscultò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əwsˈkul.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əwsˈkul.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [awsˈkul.to]

Verb

ausculto

1. first-person singular present indicative of auscultar

Italian

Verb

ausculto

1. first-person singular present indicative of auscultare

Latin

Alternative forms

• ascultō

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auskoltā, from aus-, the original stem of auris (“ear”), + Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Other theories take the second component to be Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”) (which itself has been connected with *ḱlew-).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯sˈkul.toː/, [äu̯s̠ˈkʊɫ̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯sˈkul.to/, [äu̯sˈkul̪t̪o]

Verb

auscultō (present infinitive auscultāre, perfect active auscultāvī, supine auscultātum); first conjugation

1. To listen; hear.
2. To believe (what one has heard).
3. To obey; heed.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of auscultō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	auscultō		auscultās		auscultat		auscultāmus		auscultātis		auscultant
	imperfect	auscultābam		auscultābās		auscultābat		auscultābāmus		auscultābātis		auscultābant
	future	auscultābō		auscultābis		auscultābit		auscultābimus		auscultābitis		auscultābunt
	perfect	auscultāvī		auscultāvistī		auscultāvit		auscultāvimus		auscultāvistis		auscultāvērunt, auscultāvēre
	pluperfect	auscultāveram		auscultāverās		auscultāverat		auscultāverāmus		auscultāverātis		auscultāverant
	future perfect	auscultāverō		auscultāveris		auscultāverit		auscultāverimus		auscultāveritis		auscultāverint
passive	present	auscultor		auscultāris, auscultāre		auscultātur		auscultāmur		auscultāminī		auscultantur
	imperfect	auscultābar		auscultābāris, auscultābāre		auscultābātur		auscultābāmur		auscultābāminī		auscultābantur
	future	auscultābor		auscultāberis, auscultābere		auscultābitur		auscultābimur		auscultābiminī		auscultābuntur
	perfect	auscultātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	auscultātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	auscultātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	auscultem		auscultēs		auscultet		auscultēmus		auscultētis		auscultent
	imperfect	auscultārem		auscultārēs		auscultāret		auscultārēmus		auscultārētis		auscultārent
	perfect	auscultāverim		auscultāverīs		auscultāverit		auscultāverīmus		auscultāverītis		auscultāverint
	pluperfect	auscultāvissem		auscultāvissēs		auscultāvisset		auscultāvissēmus		auscultāvissētis		auscultāvissent
passive	present	ausculter		auscultēris, auscultēre		auscultētur		auscultēmur		auscultēminī		auscultentur
	imperfect	auscultārer		auscultārēris, auscultārēre		auscultārētur		auscultārēmur		auscultārēminī		auscultārentur
	perfect	auscultātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	auscultātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		auscultā		—		—		auscultāte		—
	future	—		auscultātō		auscultātō		—		auscultātōte		auscultantō
passive	present	—		auscultāre		—		—		auscultāminī		—
	future	—		auscultātor		auscultātor		—		—		auscultantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		auscultāre			auscultārī			auscultāns			—
future		auscultātūrum esse			auscultātum īrī			auscultātūrus			auscultandus
perfect		auscultāvisse			auscultātum esse			—			auscultātus
future perfect		—			auscultātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		auscultātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		auscultandī		auscultandō		auscultandum		auscultandō		auscultātum		auscultātū

Related terms

• auscultātiō
• auscultātor

Descendants

• → Catalan: auscultar
• → English: auscultate, auscult
• → Esperanto: aŭskulti
• → Franco-Provençal: ôscultar
• → French: ausculter
• → Italian: auscultare
• → Portuguese: auscultar
• → Romanian: ausculta
• → Spanish: auscultar

Reflexes of the variant ascultāre (in many cases remodelled to *excultāre):

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ascultu
  • Romanian: asculta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ascoltare
    • → Ido: askoltar
    • → Interlingua: ascoltar
  • Sicilian: ascutari
• Western Romance of N. Italy:
  • Friulian: scoltâ
  • Istriot: scoltà
  • Ladin: scuter
  • Lombard: scoltar, ehcoltar
  • Piedmontese: scoté
  • Venetan: scoltar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: escoltar
  • Franco-Provençal: ahcutar
  • Old French: escouter, ascolter, escolter, esculter, eskolter
    • Middle French: escouter
      • French: écouter
    • Norman: êcouter
    • Picard: acouter
    • Walloon: schoûter
    • → Middle English: scouten
      • English: scout
  • Occitan: escotar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: ascuitar, escuitar, escutiar
    • Ribagorçan: escultar, ascultar
  • Asturian: escuchar, escuitar, escueitar, ascuchar, ascuitar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ascoitar, ascuitar
    • Galician: escoitar, escuitar, escutar, escutiar
    • Portuguese: escutar, escuitar
  • Old Spanish: ascuchar
    • Spanish: escuchar
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: aiscultare, aiscurtare, ascultare

See also

• audiō

Further reading

• “ausculto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ausculto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ausculto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

• oculātus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awsˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awsˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.tu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /awʃˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯ʃˈkuʊ̯.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awsˈkuw.to/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awʃˈkul.tu/ [awʃˈkuɫ.tu]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtu
• Hyphenation: aus‧cul‧to

Verb

ausculto

1. first-person singular present indicative of auscultar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ausˈkulto/ [au̯sˈkul̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: aus‧cul‧to

Verb

ausculto

1. first-person singular present indicative of auscultar