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Latin
Etymology
From ad- + scīscō (“seek to know; learn; approve”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ascīscō (present infinitive ascīscere, perfect active ascīvī, supine ascītum); third conjugation
- to take or receive something with knowledge; approve, accept, recognize, adopt
- Synonyms: accipiō, recipiō, sūmō, concipiō
- to take or receive someone to oneself; bring in, win over, recruit, adopt, associate with oneself
- (with reflexive or dative) to assume, claim or arrogate something to oneself, lay claim to
- Synonym: arrogō
Conjugation
References
- “ascisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ascisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ascisco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to enroll as a citizen, burgess: in civitatem recipere, ascribere, asciscere aliquem
- to make some one one's ally: socium aliquem asciscere (B. G. 1. 5)