quaxo

Latin

Alternative forms

• coaxō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷak.soː/, [ˈkʷäks̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwak.so/, [ˈkwäkso]

Verb

quaxō (present infinitive quaxāre, perfect active quaxāvī, supine quaxātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive, hapax) to croak (make sound of a frog)
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 258, line 27:

     Quaxāre rānae dīcuntur, cum vōcem mittunt.

     Frogs are said to croak when they make sounds.

Conjugation

Conjugation of quaxō (first conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	quaxō	quaxās	quaxat	quaxāmus	quaxātis	quaxant
	imperfect	quaxābam	quaxābās	quaxābat	quaxābāmus	quaxābātis	quaxābant
	future	quaxābō	quaxābis	quaxābit	quaxābimus	quaxābitis	quaxābunt
	perfect	quaxāvī	quaxāvistī	quaxāvit	quaxāvimus	quaxāvistis	quaxāvērunt, quaxāvēre
	pluperfect	quaxāveram	quaxāverās	quaxāverat	quaxāverāmus	quaxāverātis	quaxāverant
	future perfect	quaxāverō	quaxāveris	quaxāverit	quaxāverimus	quaxāveritis	quaxāverint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	quaxem	quaxēs	quaxet	quaxēmus	quaxētis	quaxent
	imperfect	quaxārem	quaxārēs	quaxāret	quaxārēmus	quaxārētis	quaxārent
	perfect	quaxāverim	quaxāverīs	quaxāverit	quaxāverīmus	quaxāverītis	quaxāverint
	pluperfect	quaxāvissem	quaxāvissēs	quaxāvisset	quaxāvissēmus	quaxāvissētis	quaxāvissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	quaxā	—	—	quaxāte	—
	future	—	quaxātō	quaxātō	—	quaxātōte	quaxantō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		quaxāre	quaxāvisse	quaxātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		quaxāns	—	quaxātūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		quaxandī	quaxandō	quaxandum	quaxandō	quaxātum	quaxātū

References

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