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The corpus record — Latin

gĕmisco

gĕmisco

to begin to sigh

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What it meant

gĕmisco — Lewis & Short

gĕmisco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [gemo], to begin to sigh (late Lat.): si buxos inflare velim, ferale gemiscunt, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 130.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.