arescit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aresco, arescere, arescui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Age:
- Medieval
- Field:
- Agriculture
become dry; dry up; wither (plants); run dry (stream/tears); languish (L=S);; become dry; dry up; wither (plants); run dry (stream/tears); languish (L+S);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...omnis. * * * frigidior porro in puteis aestate fit umor, arescit quia terra calore et semina si qua forte vaporis..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...vides, paret mihi. Florida tellus, cum volo, spissatis arescit languida sucis, cum volo, fundit opes, scopulique atque horrida..." - M
I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...admotus est, transit, aut in manu tarde reptantis arescit. Hoc quid esse dicamus, quod circa cubiculum utrumque sanguinis..."