persequens
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present participle of persequor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈper.se.kʷens/, [ˈpɛrs̠ɛkʷẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈper.se.kwens/, [ˈpɛrsekwens]
Participle
[edit]persequēns (genitive persequentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- following, pursuing
- 58 BCE – 49 BCE, Gaius Iulius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico. Book I, section LIII:
- C. Valerius Procillus, cum ā cūstōdibus in fugā trīnīs catēnīs vīnctus traherētur, in ipsum Caesarem hostēs equitātū persequentem incidit.
- Gaius Valerius Procillus, as he was being dragged by his guards in the fight, bound with a triple chain, fell into the hands of Caesar himself, as he was pursuing the enemy with his cavalry.
- C. Valerius Procillus, cum ā cūstōdibus in fugā trīnīs catēnīs vīnctus traherētur, in ipsum Caesarem hostēs equitātū persequentem incidit.
- accomplishing
Declension
[edit]Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | persequēns | persequentēs | persequentia | ||
Genitive | persequentis | persequentium | |||
Dative | persequentī | persequentibus | |||
Accusative | persequentem | persequēns | persequentēs persequentīs |
persequentia | |
Ablative | persequente persequentī1 |
persequentibus | |||
Vocative | persequēns | persequentēs | persequentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
[edit]- “persequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- persequens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.