excerno
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of, from”) + cernō (“separate, sift; discern”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈsker.noː/, [ɛkˈskɛr.noː]
Verb
excernō (present infinitive excernere, perfect active excrēvī, supine excrētum); third conjugation
- I sift out, separate.
- I keep apart, keep away.
- I accumulate, proliferate
- Litium series excreverant.
- A succession of lawsuits had accumulated.
- (of the body) I excrete, carry off, discharge.
Inflection
| Conjugation of excerno (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | excernō | excernis | excernit | excernimus | excernitis | excernunt |
| imperfect | excernēbam | excernēbās | excernēbat | excernēbāmus | excernēbātis | excernēbant | |
| future | excernam | excernēs | excernet | excernēmus | excernētis | excernent | |
| perfect | excrēvī | excrēvistī | excrēvit | excrēvimus | excrēvistis | excrēvērunt, excrēvēre | |
| pluperfect | excrēveram | excrēverās | excrēverat | excrēverāmus | excrēverātis | excrēverant | |
| future perfect | excrēverō | excrēveris | excrēverit | excrēverimus | excrēveritis | excrēverint | |
| passive | present | excernor | excerneris, excernere | excernitur | excernimur | excerniminī | excernuntur |
| imperfect | excernēbar | excernēbāris, excernēbāre | excernēbātur | excernēbāmur | excernēbāminī | excernēbantur | |
| future | excernar | excernēris, excernēre | excernētur | excernēmur | excernēminī | excernentur | |
| perfect | excrētus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | excrētus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | excrētus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | excernam | excernās | excernat | excernāmus | excernātis | excernant |
| imperfect | excernerem | excernerēs | excerneret | excernerēmus | excernerētis | excernerent | |
| perfect | excrēverim | excrēverīs | excrēverit | excrēverimus | excrēveritis | excrēverint | |
| pluperfect | excrēvissem | excrēvissēs | excrēvisset | excrēvissēmus | excrēvissētis | excrēvissent | |
| passive | present | excernar | excernāris, excernāre | excernātur | excernāmur | excernāminī | excernantur |
| imperfect | excernerer | excernerēris, excernerēre | excernerētur | excernerēmur | excernerēminī | excernerentur | |
| perfect | excrētus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | excrētus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | excerne | — | — | excernite | — |
| future | — | excernitō | excernitō | — | excernitōte | excernuntō | |
| passive | present | — | excernere | — | — | excerniminī | — |
| future | — | excernitor | excernitor | — | — | excernuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | excernere | excrēvisse | excrētūrus esse | excernī | excrētus esse | excrētum īrī | |
| participles | excernēns | — | excrētūrus | — | excrētus | excernendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| excernere | excernendī | excernendō | excernendum | excrētum | excrētū | ||
Derived terms
- excrēmentum
- excrētus
Related terms
- cernō
- concernō
- dēcernō
- discernō
- incernō
- sēcernō
Descendants
- English: excrete, excern
- French: excréter, écerner
- Italian: escretare, scernere
- English: scern (borrowed)
- Portuguese: excretar
- Spanish: excretar
References
- excerno in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excerno in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette