immiseror
Latin
Alternative forms
- inmiseror
Etymology
Etymology tree
From in- (intensifier) + miseror (“bewail, pity”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪmˈmɪ.sɛ.rɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [imˈmiː.s̬e.ror]
Verb
immiseror (present infinitive immiserārī, perfect active immiserātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to pity, commiserate
- early 2nd century BC, Plautus, Vidularia apud Nonium Marcellum, De compendiosa doctrina 138.29–30:
- Malim moriri meos, quam mendicarier; Boni immiſerantur, illhunc irrident mali.
- I had better the ones close to me die than take alms; the good pity them whom the wicked jeer.
- Malim moriri meos, quam mendicarier; Boni immiſerantur, illhunc irrident mali.
- 1718, Bernardini Ramazzini, Opera Omnia, third edition, London, page 45:
- Malam vero habitudinem, quam in Medico Valetudinario vident, & immiſerantur, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
The Plautine quotation may reflect a manuscript error, as other versions of the text contain the term ministrantur. The current Loeb Classical Library edition contains the word miserantur.
Conjugation
Conjugation of immiseror (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | immiseror | immiserāris, immiserāre |
immiserātur | immiserāmur | immiserāminī | immiserantur | ||||||
| imperfect | immiserābar | immiserābāris, immiserābāre |
immiserābātur | immiserābāmur | immiserābāminī | immiserābantur | |||||||
| future | immiserābor | immiserāberis, immiserābere |
immiserābitur | immiserābimur | immiserābiminī | immiserābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | immiserātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | immiserātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | immiserātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | immiserer | immiserēris, immiserēre |
immiserētur | immiserēmur | immiserēminī | immiserentur | ||||||
| imperfect | immiserārer | immiserārēris, immiserārēre |
immiserārētur | immiserārēmur | immiserārēminī | immiserārentur | |||||||
| perfect | immiserātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | immiserātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | immiserāre | — | — | immiserāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | immiserātor | immiserātor | — | — | immiserantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | immiserārī | — | immiserāns | — | |||||||||
| future | immiserātūrum esse | — | immiserātūrus | immiserandus | |||||||||
| perfect | immiserātum esse | — | immiserātus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | immiserātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | immiserātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| immiserandī | immiserandō | immiserandum | immiserandō | immiserātum | immiserātū | ||||||||
Further reading
- “immĭsĕror (inm-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841], Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum, third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, *Immiseror: “*Immiseror, aris, ari. d. 不憐憫。”
- Wiseman, Nicholas (1835), Two Letters: On Some Parts of the Controversy Concerning 1. John V. 7[1], Rome: Joseph Salviucci and Son, page 52
- de Melo, Wolfgang, editor (29 April 2013), Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments, Harvard University Press, →ISBN