consero

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkõː.sɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn.se.ro]

From con- + serō (“sow, plant”).

cōnserō (present infinitive cōnserere, perfect active cōnsēvī, supine cōnsatum); third conjugation

1. to sow or plant with or in
2. to sow, plant

• The fourth principal part may be cōnsitum or cōnsatum.

From con- + serō (“join or bind together”).

cōnserō (present infinitive cōnserere, perfect active cōnseruī, supine cōnsertum); third conjugation

1. to fasten, connect, entwine, tie, join or bind into a whole

   Synonyms: colligō, illigō, ligō, adalligō, dēligō, cōnfīgō, iniungō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō

   Antonyms: absolvō, persolvō, solvō, distrahō, dissolvō, explicō, rumpō, sēparō

2. to unite or bring together

   Synonyms: conferō, convehō, contrahō, congerō, contribuō, committō, cōgō, stīpō, glomerō, compellō

3. (with manum or manus) to engage in close combat, join battle
4. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to fold or enfold
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.24.33:

     Parum inquam dormiēs, modicum dormītābis, pauxillum manūs cōnserēs ut quiēscās. (future active indicative)

     Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest [...].
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

• “consero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “consero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to come to close quarters: manum (us) conserere cum hoste