evanidus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ēvānĭdus, a, um, adj. [evanesco], vanishing, passing away (not ante-Aug., and very rare).

I Lit.: pectora, Ov. M. 5, 435: oleae, i. e. frail , without strength , Col. Arb. 17, 3; cf. arbores, Vitr. 2, 10: materia vetustate, id. 2, 8: evanida et siticulosa calx, id. 7, 2; and, viriditas, Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 70.—

II Trop.: amor, Ov. R. Am. 653: gaudium (with leve), Sen. Ep. 35.

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