The corpus record — Latin

deliquesco

to melt away, pine away; to vanish, disappear

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Where it lives

Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

dē-lĭquesco — Lewis & Short

dē-lĭquesco, lĭcŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to melt away, dissolve, melt (very rare).

I Lit.: utinam tua ista in sortiendo sors delicuerit, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 47: ubi delicuit nondum prior (sc. nix), altera venit, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 15: Hyrie flendo delicuit, id. M. 7, 381; cf. id. ib. 4, 253.—

II Trop., to melt away, pine away; to vanish, disappear: qui nec tabescat molestiis nec frangatur timore nec alacritate futtili gestiens deliquescat, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37; Lact. 7, 12.

In the wild

delicuit Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.381
deliquescat Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.37
delicuit Ovid, Tristia 3.10.15

Where it came from

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