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The corpus record — Latin

grăcĭlesco

grăcĭlesco

to become slender

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What it meant

grăcĭlesco — Lewis & Short

grăcĭlesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [gracilis], to become slender, small (post-class.): obeliscus gracilescens, Amm. 17, 4: pyramidum magnitudo gracilescit paulatim, id. 22, 15.

Where it came from

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

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