ranceo

Italian

ranceo (feminine rancea, masculine plural rancei, feminine plural rancee)

Unknown.^[1]

ranceō (present infinitive rancēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems (rare)

to be rotting or rancid
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.719:
  unde cadavera rancenti iam viscere vermes

Very rare. In Classical Latin, only the present active participle rancēns is attested. A few other forms are marginally attested in early medieval Latin, such as rancet, glossed as “rancidum est” in an eighth-century glossary.^[2]^[3]

Conjugation of ranceō (second conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active-only)

^ 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 513
^ J. H. Hessels, editor (1890), An eight-century Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary, preserved in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (ms. no.144), page 101
^ R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “rancere”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC