coest

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ est. Compare Russian сбы́ться (sbýtʹsja, “to come true, happen”), a parallel formation but with a reflexive particle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈko.ɛst]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.est]

Verb

coest (present infinitive coesse, perfect active cōnfuit, future active participle cōnfutūrus); irregular conjugation, suppletive, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund

1. (Old Latin, rare) to happen (in a positive way); to be achieved; to turn out well
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.3.66–68, (lines 939–941):

     Acr. Datne ab se mulier operam?
     Per. Lepidissume et compsissume.
     Acr. Confido confuturum.
     ubi facta erit conlatio nostrarum malitiarum,
     haud vereor ne nos subdola perfidia pervincamur.

     • Translation by Paul Nixon

       Is the girl herself helping us?
       Oh, delightfully, toutafaitly!
       I trust things will turn out well.
       When we've lumped together our talents for mischief,
       I have no fear of our being beaten at artful wiles.

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 1.1.138–140:

     sin eveniat quod volo,
     in Pamphilo ut nil sit morae, restat Chremes,
     qui mi exorandus est: et spero confore.

     • Translation by Henry Thomas Riley

       If it should turn out, as I wish,
       that there is no delay on the part of Pamphilus, Chremes remains
       to be prevailed upon by me; and I do hope that all will go well.

2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) to occur at the same time, to coexist
   • William of Saint Thierry, Meditativae orationes 1.7.52:

     Est autem praescientia tua, Deus, ipsa sapientia tua, quae ab aeterno tibi aeternaliter coest, (etiam si nulla esset creatura) […]

     Moreover, Thy foreknowledge, O my God, is one thing with Thy wisdom, which is with Thee from and to all eternity, and so would it have been with Thee, had never a creature existed.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of coest (irregular conjugation, suppletive, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		—		coest		—		—		—
	imperfect	—		—		coerat		—		—		—
	future	—		—		coerit		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		cōnfuit		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		cōnfuerat		—		—		—
	future perfect	—		—		cōnfuerit		—		—		—
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—1		—1		cōnsit, cōnsiet, cōnfuat1		—1		—1		—1
	imperfect	—		—		coesset, cōnforet		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		cōnfuerit		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		cōnfuisset		—		—		—
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	future	—		—		coestō		—		—		—
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		coesse			—			cōnsēns			—
future		cōnfutūrum esse, cōnfore			—			cōnfutūrus			—
perfect		cōnfuisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		cōnfutūrum fuisse			—			—			—

¹Old Latin or in poetry.

References

• “consum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “confuit”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "coesse", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)