The corpus record — Latin

detumesco

v. inch. n., to cease swelling, to settle down, subside (postAug. and very rare): stagna lacusque sonori detumuere…

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Where it lives

Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

dē-tŭmesco — Lewis & Short

dē-tŭmesco, mŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to cease swelling, to settle down, subside (postAug. and very rare): stagna lacusque sonori detumuere, Stat. Th. 3, 259: animi maris, id. ib. 5, 468.—Trop.: odia, Petr. 109, 5: colla superbarum gentium, Amm. 15, 8, 7.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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