tabens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of tābeō

Participle

tābēns (genitive tābentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. dripping
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.172–173:

     ēgressī optāta potiuntur Trōēs harēnā,
     et sale tābentīs artūs in lītore pōnunt.

     Having disembarked, the Trojans gain the chosen sand, and upon the shore they fling [their] limbs, dripping with brine.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	tābēns			tābentēs	tābentia
genitive	tābentis			tābentium
dative	tābentī			tābentibus
accusative	tābentem	tābēns		tābentēs tābentīs	tābentia
ablative	tābente tābentī1			tābentibus
vocative	tābēns			tābentēs	tābentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.