arboresco

Latin[edit]

FWOTD – 21 February 2013

From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -ēscō.

arborēscō (present infinitive arborēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

to become a tree
- c. 78 CE, Pliny the Elder, edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff, Naturalis Historia, book 19, chapter 23:
  namque tradunt auctores in Arabia malvas septimo mense arborescere baculorumque usum praebere.
  Indeed, authors in Arabia hand down the tradition that mallows become trees in the seventh month and see use as walking-sticks.

Conjugation of arborēscō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	arborēscō	arborēscis	arborēscit	arborēscimus	arborēscitis	arborēscunt
	imperfect	arborēscēbam	arborēscēbās	arborēscēbat	arborēscēbāmus	arborēscēbātis	arborēscēbant
	future	arborēscam	arborēscēs	arborēscet	arborēscēmus	arborēscētis	arborēscent
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	arborēscam	arborēscās	arborēscat	arborēscāmus	arborēscātis	arborēscant
active	imperfect	arborēscerem	arborēscerēs	arborēsceret	arborēscerēmus	arborēscerētis	arborēscerent
imperative		singular			plural
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	arborēsce	—	—	arborēscite	—
active	future	—	arborēscitō	arborēscitō	—	arborēscitōte	arborēscuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		arborēscere	—	—	—	—	—
participles		arborēscēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		arborēscendī	arborēscendō	arborēscendum	arborēscendō	—	—

“arboresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
arboresco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.