coest
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]con- + est (see sum). Compare Russian сбы́ться (sbýtʹsja, “to come true, happen”), containing the same two elements + a reflexive particle.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.est/, [ˈkoɛs̠t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.est/, [ˈkɔːest̪]
Verb
[edit]coest (present infinitive coesse, perfect active cōnfuit, future participle cōnfutūrus); irregular conjugation, irregular, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle
- (archaic, rare) to happen, to be accomplished
- c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.3.66–68, (lines 939–941):
- Acr. Datne ab se mulier operam?
Per. Lepidissume et compsissume.
Acr. Confido confuturum.
ubi facta erit conlatio nostrarum malitiarum,
haud vereor ne nos subdola perfidia pervincamur.- Translation by Paul Nixon
- Is the girl herself helping us?
Oh, delightfully, toutafaitly!
I trust things will turn out well.
When we've lumped together our talents for mischief,
I have no fear of our being beaten at artful wiles.
- Is the girl herself helping us?
- Translation by Paul Nixon
- Acr. Datne ab se mulier operam?
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 1.1.138–140:
- sin eveniat quod volo,
in Pamphilo ut nil sit morae, restat Chremes,
qui mi exorandus est: et spero confore.- Translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- If it should turn out, as I wish,
that there is no delay on the part of Pamphilus, Chremes remains
to be prevailed upon by me; and I do hope that all will go well.
- If it should turn out, as I wish,
- Translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- sin eveniat quod volo,
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) to occur at the same time, to coexist
- William of Saint Thierry, Meditativae orationes 1.7.52:
- Est autem praescientia tua, Deus, ipsa sapientia tua, quae ab aeterno tibi aeternaliter coest, (etiam si nulla esset creatura) […]
- Moreover, Thy foreknowledge, O my God, is one thing with Thy wisdom, which is with Thee from and to all eternity, and so would it have been with Thee, had never a creature existed.
- Est autem praescientia tua, Deus, ipsa sapientia tua, quae ab aeterno tibi aeternaliter coest, (etiam si nulla esset creatura) […]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of coest (highly irregular, suppletive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal, active only) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | — | coest | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | coerat | — | — | — | |
future | — | — | coerit | — | — | — | |
perfect | — | — | cōnfuit | — | — | — | |
pluperfect | — | — | cōnfuerat | — | — | — | |
future perfect | — | — | cōnfuerit | — | — | — | |
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | — | cōnsit | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | coesset, cōnforet |
— | — | — | |
perfect | — | — | cōnfuerit | — | — | — | |
pluperfect | — | — | cōnfuisset | — | — | — | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | coesse | cōnfuisse | cōnfutūrum esse, cōnfore |
— | — | — | |
participles | — | — | cōnfutūrus | — | — | — |
References
[edit]- “consum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confuit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- coesse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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