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Latin
Etymology
From some unattested *fatis (“weariness”). Connected with famēs, affatim, fatīgō, fessus.
Pronunciation
Verb
fatīscō (present infinitive fatīscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem
- to gape, yawn, crack, split open
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.122–123:
- laxīs laterum compāgibus, omnēs
accipiunt inimīcum imbrem, rīmīsque fatīscunt.- With the seams of their sides having been loosened, all let in lethal stormwater, and with cracks split open.
(The storm at sea destroys the Trojan fleet.)
- to droop (grow weak)
Conjugation
References
- “fatisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fatisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fatisco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239