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Italian
Verb
escendo
- gerund of escire
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ex- + scandō (“to mount”). The spelling with esc- instead of exsc- is probably caused by a dissimilatory replacement of /eksk/ with /esk/ (as in the word sescentī, standing for sex-centī), not by use of the long-vowel allomorph ē-, which is only regularly found in prefixed words before a voiced consonant (ēpōtō is an isolated exception).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
escendō (present infinitive escendere, perfect active escendī, supine escēnsum); third conjugation
- to ascend, go up, mount
- Synonyms: īnscendō, cōnscendō, ascendō, succēdō, scandō, superscandō, suprascandō, ēnītor, subeō, ērēpō
- Antonyms: dēscendō, dēcurrō
Conjugation
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References
- ^ Leumann, Manu (1977) Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre, Page 203
Further reading
- “escendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “escendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- escendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to mount the rostra: in contionem (in rostra) escendere (only of Romans)