evanesco

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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

  1. 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.)
  2. to fade away, or die out
  3. 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    • those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of evanescer