vescor

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“graze”), cognate with Gothic wisan (“to enjoy oneself, devour”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

vēscor (present infinitive vēscī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems

  1. (with accusative or ablative) to eat, feed upon
    Synonyms: adedō, edō, vorō, prandeō, pāscor, cēnō, cōnsūmō, epulor
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.7:
      ne extis [...] vescerentur
      Should not eat of the entrails
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.14:
      Īnstituērunt diem fēstum: nōn quō solō cum servīs dominī vescerentur, sed quō utique.
      They established a holiday: not the only [one] on which masters could eat [together] with [their] slaves, but [one] on which [they] certainly would.
      (See Saturnalia.)
  2. (with accusative or ablative) to make use of, enjoy, use
    Synonyms: adhibeō, sūmō, assūmō, ūtor, ūsūrpō
  3. (intransitive) to eat

Usage notes

  • The verb vēscor and others like it, fruor, fungor, ūtor, potior, and their compounds, regularly govern the ablative case.
    Lacte et ferīnā carne vēscēbantur.
    They fed on milk and game.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of vēscor (third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vēscor vēsceris,
vēscere 		vēscitur vēscimur vēsciminī vēscuntur
imperfect vēscēbar vēscēbāris,
vēscēbāre 		vēscēbātur vēscēbāmur vēscēbāminī vēscēbantur
future vēscar vēscēris,
vēscēre 		vēscētur vēscēmur vēscēminī vēscentur
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vēscar vēscāris,
vēscāre 		vēscātur vēscāmur vēscāminī vēscantur
imperfect vēscerer vēscerēris,
vēscerēre 		vēscerētur vēscerēmur vēscerēminī vēscerentur
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — vēscere — — vēsciminī —
future — vēscitor vēscitor — — vēscuntor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present vēscī — vēscēns —
future — — — vēscendus,
vēscundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
vēscendī vēscendō vēscendum vēscendō — —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Albanian: ushqej

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vēscor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “vescor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vescor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vescor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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