evanesco
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + vānēscō (“disappear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.waːˈneːs.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.vaˈnɛs.ko]
Verb
ēvānēscō (present infinitive ēvānēscere, perfect active ēvānuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to vanish, disappear, pass away
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.276–278:
- [...] Tālī Cyllēnius ōre locūtus
mortālis vīsus mediō sermōne relīquit,
et procul in tenuem ex oculīs ēvānuit auram.- Having uttered such [words] from his lips, the Cyllenian [god] – [still] in the midst of speaking – abandoned mortal visibility, and from before the eyes [of Aeneas, Mercury] vanished into thin air.
(Mercury had been born on Mount Cyllene; his divine apparition appears suddenly, rebukes Aeneas, and disappears abruptly.)
- Having uttered such [words] from his lips, the Cyllenian [god] – [still] in the midst of speaking – abandoned mortal visibility, and from before the eyes [of Aeneas, Mercury] vanished into thin air.
- [...] Tālī Cyllēnius ōre locūtus
- to fade away, or die out
- to lapse
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References
- “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- evanesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
- those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
- hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
Spanish
Verb
evanesco
- first-person singular present indicative of evanescer