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Verb
mendico
- first-person singular present indicative of mendicar
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin mendīcus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /menˈdi.ko/
- Rhymes: -iko
- Hyphenation: men‧dì‧co
Adjective
mendico (feminine mendica, masculine plural mendichi, feminine plural mendiche)
- mendicant
- Synonym: mendicante
Derived terms
Noun
mendico m (plural mendichi, feminine mendica)
- mendicant, beggar
- Synonym: mendicante
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
mendico
- first-person singular present indicative of mendicare
References
Latin
Etymology
From mendīcus (“beggarly, needy”).
Pronunciation
Verb
mendīcō (present infinitive mendīcāre, perfect active mendīcāvī, future participle mendīcātūrus); first conjugation
- to beg, ask for alms
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “mendico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mendico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mendico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.