Inchoative verbs (Verba inchoativa)

The circumflected accents are used to mark the long vowels.

The inchoative verbs denote the beginning of an action, state, or occurrence. They are formed with the suffix -sc- and are classivied into three groups:
 

1. The Primitive Inchoative Verbs exist only in the inchoative form:

• nosco, novi notus, noscere 3 to get to know.
• pasco, pavi, pastus, pascere 3 to feed on, graze.

• aresco, arui, --, arescere 3 (from areo, 2  to be dry / thirsty) to become dry, dry up;
• pallesco, pallui, --, pallescere 3  (from palleo, 2  to be pale)  to become pale

• floresco, --,  --, florescere 3  (from flos, floris n  blossom)  to begin to blossom;
• nigresco, nigrui, --, nigrescere 3  (from niger, 3  black)  to become black, grow dark;
• senesco, senui, --, senescere 3  (from senex  old man)  to grow old.

See the development of the inchoative verbs in Medieval Latin.