The corpus record — Latin

ē-marcesco

to wither away

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What it meant

ē-marcesco — Lewis & Short

ē-marcesco, -marcui, 3,

I v. inch. n., to wither away (very rare).—Trop., to dwindle away, disappear: auctoritas, Plin. 15, 29, 36, § 121: refugium, Hier. Ies. 5, 17, 4: cor meum, fainted, Vulg. Isa. 21, 4 al.† † emarcus, i a Gallic word, a kind of vine, producing a wine of middling quality, Col. 3, 2, 25 (called also marcus, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 32).

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