arescite
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);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...vides, paret mihi. Florida tellus, cum volo, spissatis arescit languida sucis, cum volo, fundit opes, scopulique atque horrida..."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..."