decerpo

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ carpō (“to pluck, pick, harvest”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈker.poː/, [d̪eːˈkɛrpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈt͡ʃer.po/, [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛrpo]

Verb

dēcerpō (present infinitive dēcerpere, perfect active dēcerpsī, supine dēcerptum); third conjugation

1. to pluck, pull; tear, snip or break off
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.255:

     prōtinus haerentem dēcerpsī pollice flōrem

     Immediately, I plucked with [my] thumb the clinging flower.

2. to cull
3. to gather or crop

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dēcerpō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēcerpō		dēcerpis		dēcerpit		dēcerpimus		dēcerpitis		dēcerpunt
	imperfect	dēcerpēbam		dēcerpēbās		dēcerpēbat		dēcerpēbāmus		dēcerpēbātis		dēcerpēbant
	future	dēcerpam		dēcerpēs		dēcerpet		dēcerpēmus		dēcerpētis		dēcerpent
	perfect	dēcerpsī		dēcerpsistī		dēcerpsit		dēcerpsimus		dēcerpsistis		dēcerpsērunt, dēcerpsēre
	pluperfect	dēcerpseram		dēcerpserās		dēcerpserat		dēcerpserāmus		dēcerpserātis		dēcerpserant
	future perfect	dēcerpserō		dēcerpseris		dēcerpserit		dēcerpserimus		dēcerpseritis		dēcerpserint
passive	present	dēcerpor		dēcerperis, dēcerpere		dēcerpitur		dēcerpimur		dēcerpiminī		dēcerpuntur
	imperfect	dēcerpēbar		dēcerpēbāris, dēcerpēbāre		dēcerpēbātur		dēcerpēbāmur		dēcerpēbāminī		dēcerpēbantur
	future	dēcerpar		dēcerpēris, dēcerpēre		dēcerpētur		dēcerpēmur		dēcerpēminī		dēcerpentur
	perfect	dēcerptus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dēcerptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dēcerptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēcerpam		dēcerpās		dēcerpat		dēcerpāmus		dēcerpātis		dēcerpant
	imperfect	dēcerperem		dēcerperēs		dēcerperet		dēcerperēmus		dēcerperētis		dēcerperent
	perfect	dēcerpserim		dēcerpserīs		dēcerpserit		dēcerpserīmus		dēcerpserītis		dēcerpserint
	pluperfect	dēcerpsissem		dēcerpsissēs		dēcerpsisset		dēcerpsissēmus		dēcerpsissētis		dēcerpsissent
passive	present	dēcerpar		dēcerpāris, dēcerpāre		dēcerpātur		dēcerpāmur		dēcerpāminī		dēcerpantur
	imperfect	dēcerperer		dēcerperēris, dēcerperēre		dēcerperētur		dēcerperēmur		dēcerperēminī		dēcerperentur
	perfect	dēcerptus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dēcerptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		dēcerpe		—		—		dēcerpite		—
	future	—		dēcerpitō		dēcerpitō		—		dēcerpitōte		dēcerpuntō
passive	present	—		dēcerpere		—		—		dēcerpiminī		—
	future	—		dēcerpitor		dēcerpitor		—		—		dēcerpuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		dēcerpere			dēcerpī			dēcerpēns			—
future		dēcerptūrum esse			dēcerptum īrī			dēcerptūrus			dēcerpendus, dēcerpundus
perfect		dēcerpsisse			dēcerptum esse			—			dēcerptus
future perfect		—			dēcerptum fore			—			—
perfect potential		dēcerptūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		dēcerpendī		dēcerpendō		dēcerpendum		dēcerpendō		dēcerptum		dēcerptū

Derived terms

• dēcermina
• dēcerptiō
• dēcerptor
• dēcerptus

References

• “decerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decerpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)