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Theme for this month: Inchoative verbs

Inchoative verbs, also known as inceptive verbs, show a process of becoming or being. They are identifiable by their "-sco" suffix in the 1st person present indicative form. They also happen to be rather common in Vergil and other Latin works, and so I am highlighting this sort of verb as the word for the month. A note on the structure of the LVD for this month--following last week's hiatus (sorry about that!), I will do an LVD today and then next Saturday. I'm going to go away for the week after graduation, but I'll start doing daily words after I get back, two Sundays after graduation (which is this Saturday).

disco, discere, didici, -

Definition: to acquire knowledge of or skill in, to learn; to be informed

Sententia: Cras ego et seniores socii ultima dictata ludi discemus.

Tomorrow, [my] senior companions and I will learn the last lessons of [high] school.

Although "disco" is not found on the collective AP syllabi as far as I can tell, it is a Latin 1 sort of word. The important part of this word is its inchoative nature. I personally knew both this verb and what inchoatives were, but until it was pointed out to me, I didn't realize that "disco" indeed was an inchoative. Etymologically, it comes from the Greek root "da," the same root from which "doceo," to teach, comes.