coest

Latin

Etymology

con- + est (see sum). Compare Russian сбы́ться (sbýtʹsja, “to come true, happen”), containing the same two elements + a reflexive particle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.est/, [ˈkoɛs̠t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.est/, [ˈkɔːest̪]

Verb

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

1. (archaic, rare) to happen, to be accomplished
   • 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 (highly irregular, suppletive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal, active only)
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	—	—	cōnsit	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	coesset, cōnforet	—	—	—
	perfect	—	—	cōnfuerit	—	—	—
	pluperfect	—	—	cōnfuisset	—	—	—
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		coesse	cōnfuisse	cōnfutūrum esse, cōnfore	—	—	—
participles		—	—	cōnfutūrus	—	—	—

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)