fatisco

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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 stems

  1. 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.)
  2. to droop (grow weak)

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