percontor
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
- Some refer it to cūnctor.
- Some refer it to contus (“stick, pole; plummet”) in the sense "to probe, to feel the depth with a (long) pole".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /perˈkon.tor/, [pɛrˈkɔn̪t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈkon.tor/, [perˈkɔn̪t̪or]
Verb
percontor (present infinitive percontārī or percontārier, perfect active percontātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- percontor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.