tabesco

Latin

Etymology

From tābeō +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /taːˈbeːs.koː/, [t̪äːˈbeːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈbes.ko/, [t̪äˈbɛsko]

Verb

tābēscō (present infinitive tābēscere, perfect active tābuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to gradually melt or dissolve
2. to dwindle away, waste away

Conjugation

   Conjugation of tābēscō (third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	tābēscō		tābēscis		tābēscit		tābēscimus		tābēscitis		tābēscunt
	imperfect	tābēscēbam		tābēscēbās		tābēscēbat		tābēscēbāmus		tābēscēbātis		tābēscēbant
	future	tābēscam		tābēscēs		tābēscet		tābēscēmus		tābēscētis		tābēscent
	perfect	tābuī		tābuistī		tābuit		tābuimus		tābuistis		tābuērunt, tābuēre
	pluperfect	tābueram		tābuerās		tābuerat		tābuerāmus		tābuerātis		tābuerant
	future perfect	tābuerō		tābueris		tābuerit		tābuerimus		tābueritis		tābuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	tābēscam		tābēscās		tābēscat		tābēscāmus		tābēscātis		tābēscant
	imperfect	tābēscerem		tābēscerēs		tābēsceret		tābēscerēmus		tābēscerētis		tābēscerent
	perfect	tābuerim		tābuerīs		tābuerit		tābuerīmus		tābuerītis		tābuerint
	pluperfect	tābuissem		tābuissēs		tābuisset		tābuissēmus		tābuissētis		tābuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		tābēsce		—		—		tābēscite		—
	future	—		tābēscitō		tābēscitō		—		tābēscitōte		tābēscuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		tābēscere			—			tābēscēns			—
perfect		tābuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		tābēscendī		tābēscendō		tābēscendum		tābēscendō		—		—

Derived terms

• contābēscō
• distābēscō
• extābēscō
• intābēscō
• pertābēscō

References

• “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere