obliviscor
Latin
editEtymology
editUncertain. Perhaps from ob- plus the root of lēvis (“smooth”) with -ēscor (passive inchoative suffix, from -ēscō), with oblīvīscor having an earlier meaning of "start to erase".[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ob.liːˈu̯iːs.kor/, [ɔblʲiːˈu̯iːs̠kɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ob.liˈvis.kor/, [obliˈviskor]
Verb
editoblīvīscor (present infinitive oblīvīscī, perfect active oblītus sum); third conjugation, deponent [with genitive ‘someone or something’ or accusative ‘something’; or (less common) with infinitive or clause]
Conjugation
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editDescendants
edit- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *oblītāre (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- “obliviscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obliviscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obliviscor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “oblīvīscor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 422