tabescens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of tābēscō.

Participle

tābēscēns (genitive tābēscentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. melting, dissolving
2. dwindling

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	tābēscēns			tābēscentēs	tābēscentia
genitive	tābēscentis			tābēscentium
dative	tābēscentī			tābēscentibus
accusative	tābēscentem	tābēscēns		tābēscentēs tābēscentīs	tābēscentia
ablative	tābēscente tābēscentī1			tābēscentibus
vocative	tābēscēns			tābēscentēs	tābēscentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• tābescentia

Descendants

• English: tabescent
• Portuguese: tabescente

References

• “tabescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press