lucescerent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lucesco, lucescere, luxi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
begin to shine; grow light (of the day), dawn; (usu. IMPERS);; it grows light, it is getting light, dawn is coming/breaking, day is breaking;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...feramur, velociter tamen illo quo intendimus perseveramus. Sed lucescere, si velimus, potest. Uno autem modo potest, si quis..."Ecloga VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...rerum paulatim sumere formas; iamque nouom terrae stupeant lucescere solem, altius atque cadant submotis nubibus imbres, incipiant siluae..."