convalesco
See also: convalesço
Latin
Etymology
From con- (intensive prefix) + valēscō (“I become strong”), from valeō (“I am strong”) + -scō (suffix forming inchoative verbs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.u̯aˈleːs.koː/, [kɔnu̯äˈɫ̪eːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.vaˈles.ko/, [koɱväˈlɛsko]
Verb
convalēscō (present infinitive convalēscere, perfect active convaluī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation
Descendants
- → German: convalescenz
- → English: convalesce, convalescence, convalescency, convalescent
- Spanish: convalecencia, convalecer, convaleciente
- French: convalescence, convalescent
- Italian: convalescente, canvalescenza
- Occitan: convalescencia
- Portuguese: convalescença, convalescente, convalescer
References
- “convalesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “convalesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- convalesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
- to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
Categories:
- Latin terms prefixed with con-
- Latin terms suffixed with -sco
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs with missing supine stem
- Latin third conjugation verbs with irregular perfect
- Latin inchoative verbs
- Latin verbs with missing supine stem
- Latin defective verbs
- Latin active-only verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook