arboresco
Latin
FWOTD – 21 February 2013
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.boˈreːs.koː/, [ärbɔˈreːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.boˈres.ko/, [ärboˈrɛsko]
Verb
arborēscō (present infinitive arborēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem
- to become a tree
- c. 78 CE, Pliny the Elder, edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff, Naturalis Historia, book 19, chapter 23:
- namque tradunt auctores in Arabia malvas septimo mense arborescere baculorumque usum praebere.
- Indeed, authors in Arabia hand down the tradition that mallows become trees in the seventh month and see use as walking-sticks.
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Descendants
- English: arboresce
- Portuguese: arborescer
References
- “arboresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arboresco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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