Infinitive
scivoli
Forms
Tenses
| Present | scivolas |
| Past | scivolis |
| Future | scivolos |
| Conditional | scivolus |
| Imperative | scivolu! |
Participles
| Active past | scivolinta |
| Active present | scivolanta |
| Active future | scivolonta |
| Passive past | scivolita |
| Passive present | scivolta |
| Passive future | scivolota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Esperanto scivola
3. Proto-Italic *-jezi
4. ▲
5. Latin -ereinflu.
6. Latin -īre
7. French -irbor.?
8. ▲
9. Latin -īre
10. Spanish -irbor.?
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
12. Latin -īre
13. Old Galician-Portuguese -ir
14. Portuguese -irbor.?
15. ▲
16. Latin -ire
17. Italian -irebor.?
18. ▲
19. Latin -iō
20. Romanian -ibor.?
21. Esperanto -i
22. Esperanto scivoli
23. From scivola (“curious”) + -i.
Sample Sentences
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Mi ege scivolis pri ĉio, kio restis al mi kaŝita. (I was extremely curious about everything that remained hidden from me.) [1980, Johán Valano (Claude Piron), chapter 30, in Ĉu li venis trakosme?, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024:]
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Ĉiu scivolis, kiel tio eblus, se ŝi mortis jam en 1945. (Everyone wondered how that would be possible if she died already in 1945.) [2001, Brian Kaneen, “Spite al la terorismaj atencoj”, in La Ondo de Esperanto:]
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