viesco

Forms

viēscō (present infinitive viēscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems^[1][2][3]

Etymology

The OLD derives it from Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”) + -scō, an inchoative verb.^[1] De Vaan notes that whether this verb and the participle viētus (“shrivelled”) belong with vieō is disputed: if the participle is a secondary one of the verb, “plaited, woven” having become “wrinkled”, then this verb could have been formed as an inchoative to the verb with the meaning of the participle, “to become wrinkled, shrivel”.^[4] For the verb he reconstructs Proto-Italic *wijeje/o- (“to plait”), from Proto-Indo-European *u̯h₁i-éie- (“to plait”).^[4] Georges compares Old High German wësanēn.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only author is Columella, who speaks of figs that are shrivelling (viescens ficus) in his book on farming.^[5][2][6]

Timeline

• 1st century AD – Columella uses the present participle of figs drying and shrivelling.^[5][2][7]

Meanings

Verb

1. To become wrinkled, shrivel, wither (of fruit).^[1][5][3]

Related words

• vieō
• viētus

References

1. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
7. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de