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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + vānēscō (“disappear”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ēvānēscō (present infinitive ēvānēscere, perfect active ēvānuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to vanish, disappear, pass away
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.276–278:
- Tālī Cyllēnius ōre locūtus
mortālis vīsus mediō sermōne relīquit,
et procul in tenuem ex oculīs ēvānuit auram.- Having uttered such from his lips, the Cyllenian – in the midst of speaking – abandoned mortal visibility, and from before the eyes vanished into thin air.
(Mercury had been born on Mount Cyllene; his divine apparition appears suddenly, rebukes Aeneas, and disappears abruptly.)
- to fade away, or die out
- to lapse
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- evanesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
- those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
- hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
Spanish
Verb
evanesco
- first-person singular present indicative of evanescer