convalesco
See also: convalesço
Latin
Alternative forms
- convaleō (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
Etymology
From con- (intensive prefix) + valēscō (“I become strong”), from valeō (“I am strong”) + -scō (suffix forming inchoative verbs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.u̯aˈleːs.koː/, [kɔnu̯äˈɫ̪eːs̠koː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.vaˈles.ko/, [koɱväˈlɛsko]
Verb
convalēscō (present infinitive convalēscere, perfect active convaluī, supine convalitum); third conjugation, no passive
Conjugation
| Conjugation of convalēscō (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | convalēscō | convalēscis | convalēscit | convalēscimus | convalēscitis | convalēscunt |
| imperfect | convalēscēbam | convalēscēbās | convalēscēbat | convalēscēbāmus | convalēscēbātis | convalēscēbant | |
| future | convalēscam | convalēscēs | convalēscet | convalēscēmus | convalēscētis | convalēscent | |
| perfect | convaluī | convaluistī | convaluit | convaluimus | convaluistis | convaluērunt, convaluēre | |
| pluperfect | convalueram | convaluerās | convaluerat | convaluerāmus | convaluerātis | convaluerant | |
| future perfect | convaluerō | convalueris | convaluerit | convaluerimus | convalueritis | convaluerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | convalēscam | convalēscās | convalēscat | convalēscāmus | convalēscātis | convalēscant |
| imperfect | convalēscerem | convalēscerēs | convalēsceret | convalēscerēmus | convalēscerētis | convalēscerent | |
| perfect | convaluerim | convaluerīs | convaluerit | convaluerīmus | convaluerītis | convaluerint | |
| pluperfect | convaluissem | convaluissēs | convaluisset | convaluissēmus | convaluissētis | convaluissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | convalēsce | — | — | convalēscite | — |
| future | — | convalēscitō | convalēscitō | — | convalēscitōte | convalēscuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | convalēscere | convaluisse | convalitūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | convalēscēns | — | convalitūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| convalēscendī | convalēscendō | convalēscendum | convalēscendō | convalitum | convalitū | ||
The supine stem (in the form of the future active participle convalitūrus) is only attested in Medieval Latin.
Descendants
- → English: convalesce
- Spanish: convalecer; convalecencia
- Italian: convalescenza
- Occitan: convalescencia
- Portuguese: convalescer; convalescença
- French: convalescent
- → English: convalescent
- Latin: convalēscentia (“regaining of health”)
- → German: Konvaleszenz
- Middle French: convalescence
- English: convalescence
- → French: convalescence (learned)
References
- “convalesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “convalesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- convalesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
- to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
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