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Latin
Etymology
From hebeō (“to be blunt, dull”) + -scō.
Verb
hebēscō (present infinitive hebēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem
- to become blunt, dull, dim or faint
Conjugation
References
- “hebesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hebesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hebesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: (in) otio languere et hebescere