languesco

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

languēscō guī, —, ere, inch.

langueo, to become faint, grow weak, sink, be enfeebled : corpore languescit: luna languescit, is obscured , Ta.: cum flos Languescit moriens, droops , V.: Bacchus in amphorā Languescit, mellows , H.: Nec mea languescent corpora, languish , O.—Fig., to grow languid, become listless, sink, decline, decrease : consensus populi, si nos languescimus, debilitetur necesse est: crescunt ignisque dolorque, Languescunt iterum, O.

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