abaestuo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ab- (“from, down from”) + aestuō (“have an undulating, waving motion, heave”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbae̯s.tu.oː/, [äˈbäe̯s̠t̪uoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈbes.tu.o/, [äˈbɛst̪uo]
Verb edit
abaestuō (present infinitive abaestuāre, perfect active abaestuāvī, supine abaestuātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- (intransitive) to hang down richly, wave down richly
- c. 160-220 C.E., Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22
- quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis
- What makes a vine hang down richly with grapes
- c. 160-220 C.E., Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22
Conjugation edit
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Further reading edit
- “abaestuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abaestuo - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.