dulcesco
Latin
Etymology
From dulcis (“sweet”) + -ēscō.
Verb
dulcēscō (present infinitive dulcēscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
- I become sweet.
Inflection
- This verb is defective, with only those forms based on the first principal part.
| Conjugation of dulcesco (third conjugation, defective, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dulcēscō | dulcēscis | dulcēscit | dulcēscimus | dulcēscitis | dulcēscunt |
| imperfect | dulcēscēbam | dulcēscēbās | dulcēscēbat | dulcēscēbāmus | dulcēscēbātis | dulcēscēbant | |
| future | dulcēscam | dulcēscēs | dulcēscet | dulcēscēmus | dulcēscētis | dulcēscent | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dulcēscam | dulcēscās | dulcēscat | dulcēscāmus | dulcēscātis | dulcēscant |
| imperfect | dulcēscerem | dulcēscerēs | dulcēsceret | dulcēscerēmus | dulcēscerētis | dulcēscerent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dulcēsce | — | — | dulcēscite | — |
| future | — | dulcēscitō | dulcēscitō | — | dulcēscitōte | dulcēscuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dulcēscere | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | dulcēscēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dulcēscere | dulcēscendī | dulcēscendō | dulcēscendum | — | — | ||
Antonyms
- (become sweet): amārēscō
Related terms
Related terms
- dulcacidus
- dulcātor
- dulcēdō
- dulcia
- dulciārius
- dulciculus
- dulcifer
- dulcificō
- dulciloquus
- dulcimodus
- dulcinervis
- dulciolum
- dulciōrelocus
- dulcis
- dulcisonōrus
- dulcisonus
- dulcitās
- dulciter
- dulcitūdō
- dulcō
- dulcor
- dulcōrō
Descendants
- Aromanian: ndultsescu, ãndultsescu, ndultsiri
- Romanian: îndulci
References
- dulcesco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dulcesco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dulcesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette