tepescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tepesco, tepescere, tepui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grow warm/acquire some heat; become tepid/lukewarm; grow warm/cool (passion);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...miscendae copia mortis,paulatim cadit ira ferox mentesque tepescunt,saucia maiores animos ut pectora gestant, 285dum dolor..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...subdita matutinis. Uesper et occiduo quae litora sole tepescunt proxima sunt zephyris. Scythiam septemque triones horrifer inuasit boreas..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...manus uitalibus haeret ferratique ungues tenero sub corde tepescunt: obuius huic, latus omne uirum stipante corona, fit iuuenis..."- P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...subdita matutinis; vesper et occiduo quae litora sole tepescunt, proxima sunt Zephyro; Scythiam septemque triones horrifer invasit Boreas..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...subdita matutinis; vesper et occiduo quae litora sole tepescunt, proxima sunt Zephyro; Scythiam septemque triones horrifer invasit Boreas..."