viridesco
Latin
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Latin viridis
Latin viridēscō
From viridis (“green”) + -ēscō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɪ.rɪˈdɛs.kɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vi.riˈdɛs.ko]
Verb
viridēscō (present infinitive viridēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems
- to become green
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | viridēscō | viridēscis | viridēscit | viridēscimus | viridēscitis | viridēscunt | ||||||
| imperfect | viridēscēbam | viridēscēbās | viridēscēbat | viridēscēbāmus | viridēscēbātis | viridēscēbant | |||||||
| future | viridēscam | viridēscēs | viridēscet | viridēscēmus | viridēscētis | viridēscent | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | viridēscam | viridēscās | viridēscat | viridēscāmus | viridēscātis | viridēscant | ||||||
| imperfect | viridēscerem | viridēscerēs | viridēsceret | viridēscerēmus | viridēscerētis | viridēscerent | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | viridēsce | — | — | viridēscite | — | ||||||
| future | — | viridēscitō | viridēscitō | — | viridēscitōte | viridēscuntō | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | viridēscere | — | viridēscēns | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| viridēscendī | viridēscendō | viridēscendum | viridēscendō | — | — | ||||||||
Descendants
Through the Vulgar *vir(i)dīre:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: verdire
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: verdecer
- Spanish: verdecer
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: invir(i)dīre (see there for further descendants)
References
- “viridesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “viridesco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.