Latin

Alternative forms

• adscīscō

Verb

ascīscō ‎(present infinitive ascīscere, perfect active ascīvī, supine ascītum); third conjugation

1. I take or receive something with knowledge; approve, accept, recognize, adopt.
2. I take or receive someone to myself; bring in, win over, recruit, adopt, associate with myself.
3. (with reflexive or dative) I assume, claim or arrogate something to myself, lay claim to.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (arrogate something to myself): arrogō

Related terms

References

• ascisco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ascisco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ascisco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enroll as a citizen, burgess: in civitatem recipere, ascribere, asciscere aliquem
    
  • to make some one one's ally: socium aliquem asciscere (B. G. 1. 5)