abaestuo
Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“from, down from”) + aestuō (“have an undulating, waving motion, heave”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbae̯s.tu.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbɛs.t̪u.o]
Verb
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
Conjugation of abaestuō (first conjugation, impersonal in the passive)
Related terms
Further reading
- “abaestuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abaestuo, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011