tabesco

Latin

Etymology

From tābeō +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

Verb

tābēscō (present infinitive tābēscere, perfect active tābuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to gradually melt or dissolve
  2. to dwindle away, waste away

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants
    • Asturian: atapecer, tapecer, trapecer

References

  • tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tabesco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere