excresco
Latin
Etymology
ex + crēscō (“to grow”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈskreːs.koː/, [ɛkˈs̠kreːs̠koː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈskres.ko/, [ɛkˈskrɛskɔ]
Verb
excrēscō (present infinitive excrēscere, perfect active excrēvī, supine excrētum); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) I grow out, grow up
- (intransitive, figuratively) I grow excessively
Conjugation
| Conjugation of excrēscō (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | excrēscō | excrēscis | excrēscit | excrēscimus | excrēscitis | excrēscunt |
| imperfect | excrēscēbam | excrēscēbās | excrēscēbat | excrēscēbāmus | excrēscēbātis | excrēscēbant | |
| future | excrēscam | excrēscēs | excrēscet | excrēscēmus | excrēscētis | excrēscent | |
| perfect | excrēvī | excrēvistī | excrēvit | excrēvimus | excrēvistis | excrēvērunt, excrēvēre | |
| pluperfect | excrēveram | excrēverās | excrēverat | excrēverāmus | excrēverātis | excrēverant | |
| future perfect | excrēverō | excrēveris | excrēverit | excrēverimus | excrēveritis | excrēverint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | excrēscam | excrēscās | excrēscat | excrēscāmus | excrēscātis | excrēscant |
| imperfect | excrēscerem | excrēscerēs | excrēsceret | excrēscerēmus | excrēscerētis | excrēscerent | |
| perfect | excrēverim | excrēverīs | excrēverit | excrēverīmus | excrēverītis | excrēverint | |
| pluperfect | excrēvissem | excrēvissēs | excrēvisset | excrēvissēmus | excrēvissētis | excrēvissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | excrēsce | — | — | excrēscite | — |
| future | — | excrēscitō | excrēscitō | — | excrēscitōte | excrēscuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | excrēscere | excrēvisse | excrētūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | excrēscēns | — | excrētūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| excrēscendī | excrēscendō | excrēscendum | excrēscendō | excrētum | excrētū | ||
References
- excresco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excresco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers