immiseror

Latin

Alternative forms

• inmiseror

Etymology

From in- (intensifier) +‎ miseror (“bewail, pity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪmˈmɪ.sɛ.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [imˈmiː.s̬e.ror]

Verb

immiseror (present infinitive immiserārī, perfect active immiserātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to pity, commiserate
   • early 2nd century BC, Plautus, Vidularia apud Nonium Marcellum, De compendiosa doctrina 138.29–30:

     Malim moriri meos, quam mendicarier; Boni immiſerantur, illhunc irrident mali.

     I had better the ones close to me die than take alms; the good pity them whom the wicked jeer.

   • 1718, Bernardini Ramazzini, Opera Omnia, third edition, London, page 45:

     Malam vero habitudinem, quam in Medico Valetudinario vident, & immiſerantur, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

The Plautine quotation may reflect a manuscript error, as other versions of the text contain the term ministrantur. The current Loeb Classical Library edition contains the word miserantur.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of immiseror (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	immiseror		immiserāris, immiserāre		immiserātur		immiserāmur		immiserāminī		immiserantur
	imperfect	immiserābar		immiserābāris, immiserābāre		immiserābātur		immiserābāmur		immiserābāminī		immiserābantur
	future	immiserābor		immiserāberis, immiserābere		immiserābitur		immiserābimur		immiserābiminī		immiserābuntur
	perfect	immiserātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	immiserātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	immiserātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	immiserer		immiserēris, immiserēre		immiserētur		immiserēmur		immiserēminī		immiserentur
	imperfect	immiserārer		immiserārēris, immiserārēre		immiserārētur		immiserārēmur		immiserārēminī		immiserārentur
	perfect	immiserātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	immiserātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		immiserāre		—		—		immiserāminī		—
	future	—		immiserātor		immiserātor		—		—		immiserantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		immiserārī			—			immiserāns			—
future		immiserātūrum esse			—			immiserātūrus			immiserandus
perfect		immiserātum esse			—			immiserātus			—
future perfect		immiserātum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		immiserātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		immiserandī		immiserandō		immiserandum		immiserandō		immiserātum		immiserātū

Further reading

• “immĭsĕror (inm-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841], Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum, third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, *Immiseror: “*Immiseror, aris, ari. d. 不憐憫。”
• Wiseman, Nicholas (1835), Two Letters: On Some Parts of the Controversy Concerning 1. John V. 7‎, Rome: Joseph Salviucci and Son, page 52
• de Melo, Wolfgang, editor (29 April 2013), Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments, Harvard University Press, →ISBN