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Latin
Etymology
From tābeō + -scō.
Pronunciation
Verb
tābēscō (present infinitive tābēscere, perfect active tābuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to gradually melt or dissolve
- to dwindle away, waste away
Conjugation
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References
- “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tabesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tabesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere