apiscor
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From apiō (alternative form of apō (“I fasten”)) + -scō. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἅπτω (háptō, “I fasten, grasp, enkindle”), Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “to reach, gain, take possession of”), आप्नोति (āpnoti, “to obtain, to grasp”), Hittite 𒂊𒅁 (epp-, “to take, seize, grab”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈpiːs.kor/, [äˈpiːs̠kɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpis.kor/, [äˈpiskor]
Verb edit
apīscor (present infinitive apīscī, perfect active aptus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to reach after, try to seize
- to pursue
- to attain or acquire
- to understand, grasp, comprehend
Conjugation edit
| Conjugation of apīscor (third conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | apīscor | apīsceris, apīscere |
apīscitur | apīscimur | apīsciminī | apīscuntur |
| imperfect | apīscēbar | apīscēbāris, apīscēbāre |
apīscēbātur | apīscēbāmur | apīscēbāminī | apīscēbantur | |
| future | apīscar | apīscēris, apīscēre |
apīscētur | apīscēmur | apīscēminī | apīscentur | |
| perfect | aptus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | aptus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | aptus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | apīscar | apīscāris, apīscāre |
apīscātur | apīscāmur | apīscāminī | apīscantur |
| imperfect | apīscerer | apīscerēris, apīscerēre |
apīscerētur | apīscerēmur | apīscerēminī | apīscerentur | |
| perfect | aptus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | aptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | apīscere | — | — | apīsciminī | — |
| future | — | apīscitor | apīscitor | — | — | apīscuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | apīscī | aptum esse | aptūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | apīscēns | aptus | aptūrus | — | — | apīscendus, apīscundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| apīscendī | apīscendō | apīscendum | apīscendō | aptum | aptū | ||
Synonyms edit
- (acquire): acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, lucror, parō, pariō, impetrō, mereō, teneō, sūmō, emō, comparō, obtineō, potior, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō
- (comprehend): apprehendō, comprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, dēprehendō, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō, cōnsequor
- (seize): habeō, concipio, capio, comprehendo, teneo, prehenso
- (pursue): exsequor, persequor, sequor, īnstō, premō, agō
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- apiscor in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
Further reading edit
- “apiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apiscor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “apt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN