nausco

Latin

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Etymology

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯s.koː/, [ˈnäu̯s̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯s.ko/, [ˈnäu̯sko]

Verb

nauscō (present infinitive nauscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem (hapax)

1. (intransitive, of beans) to open in the shape of a ship
   • [1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 168, line 5:

     Nauscit, cum grānum fābae sē nāscendī grātiā aperit, quod sit nōn dissimile nāvis fōrmae.

     When a bean opens itself for germinating, which is not dissimilar to the shape of a ship, we say nauscit.]

Conjugation

Conjugation of nauscō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	nauscō	nauscis	nauscit	nauscimus	nauscitis	nauscunt
	imperfect	nauscēbam	nauscēbās	nauscēbat	nauscēbāmus	nauscēbātis	nauscēbant
	future	nauscam	nauscēs	nauscet	nauscēmus	nauscētis	nauscent
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	nauscam	nauscās	nauscat	nauscāmus	nauscātis	nauscant
	imperfect	nauscerem	nauscerēs	nausceret	nauscerēmus	nauscerētis	nauscerent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	nausce	—	—	nauscite	—
	future	—	nauscitō	nauscitō	—	nauscitōte	nauscuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		nauscere	—	—	—	—	—
participles		nauscēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		nauscendī	nauscendō	nauscendum	nauscendō	—	—

References

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