fatisco

Latin

Etymology

From some unattested *fatis (“weariness”). Connected with famēs, affatim, fatīgō, fessus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faˈtiːs.koː/, [fäˈt̪iːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈtis.ko/, [fäˈt̪isko]

Verb

fatīscō (present infinitive fatīscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

1. to gape, yawn, crack, split open
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.122–123:

     [...] laxīs laterum compāgibus, omnēs
     accipiunt inimīcum imbrem, rīmīsque fatīscunt.

     With the seams of their sides having been loosened, all [the ships] let in lethal stormwater, and with cracks split open.
     (The storm at sea destroys the Trojan fleet.)

2. to droop (grow weak)

Conjugation

Conjugation of fatīscō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fatīscō	fatīscis	fatīscit	fatīscimus	fatīscitis	fatīscunt
	imperfect	fatīscēbam	fatīscēbās	fatīscēbat	fatīscēbāmus	fatīscēbātis	fatīscēbant
	future	fatīscam	fatīscēs	fatīscet	fatīscēmus	fatīscētis	fatīscent
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fatīscam	fatīscās	fatīscat	fatīscāmus	fatīscātis	fatīscant
	imperfect	fatīscerem	fatīscerēs	fatīsceret	fatīscerēmus	fatīscerētis	fatīscerent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	fatīsce	—	—	fatīscite	—
	future	—	fatīscitō	fatīscitō	—	fatīscitōte	fatīscuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fatīscere	—	—	—	—	—
participles		fatīscēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fatīscendī	fatīscendō	fatīscendum	fatīscendō	—	—

Related terms

• dēfetīscor

References

• “fatisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fatisco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239