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langueo

to be sluggish or faint

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Psychomachia 3 · 5/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Rerum Natura 13 · 2.67/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. langueO — de Vaan

langueO 'to be sluggish or faint' [v. II] (Acc.+) Derivatives: languor 'faintness, exhaustion' (P1-+), languescere 'to grow weak, fall HP (Lucr.+), languidus 'faint, exhausted' (Acc.+). Pit. *(s)lang-u-, PIE *sl-n-g-u-^weak> faint'? IE cognates: Skt. slaksna- 'slippery, meagre, thin' (if from *slaks-); Gr. λαγαίω 'to release', λαγαρός 'slack, emaciated, thin', λάγανον 'thin cake\ λάγνος 'lascivious, voluptuous', … — [de Vaan, s.v. langueO, p. 339]

2. languĕo — Lewis & Short

languĕo, ēre, 2, v. n.root lag-; Gr. lagaro/s, la/gnos, lewd; Lat. laxare, lactes; cf. Sanscr. lang-a, prostitute; Gr. lagw/s, hare, lago/nes, the flanks, womb,

I to be faint, weary, languid (cf.: languesco, marceo, torpeo).

I Lit.

A In gen.: cum de via languerem, was fatigued with my journey, Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12: per assiduos motus languere, to be wearied, Ov. H. 18, 161.—Poet.: flos languet, droops, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 46. Val. Fl. 7, 24 al.: languet aequor, the sea is calm, Mart. 10, 30, 12: lunae languet jubar, is enfeebled, obscured, Stat. Th. 12, 305.—

B In partic., to be weak, faint, languid from disease (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): languent mea membra, Tib. 3, 5, 28: tristi languebunt corpora morbo, Verg. G. 4, 252: sub natalem suum plerumque languebat, Suet. Aug. 81: si te languere audierimus, Aug. ap. Suet. Tib. 21 fin.: ego langui et aegrotavi per dies, Vulg. Dan. 8, 27; Luc. 7, 10; cf. languesco.—

II Trop., to be languid, dull, heavy, inactive, listless: languet juventus, nec perinde atque debebat in laudis et gloriae cupiditate versatur, Cic. Pis. 33, 82: nec eam solitudinem languere patior, to pass in idleness, to be wasted, id. Off. 3, 1, 3: otio, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7; cf.: in otio hebescere et languere, id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: si paululum modo vos languere viderint, to be without energy, Sall. C. 52, 18: languet amor, Ov. A. A. 2, 436: mihi gratia languet, Sil. 17, 361.—Hence, languens, entis, P. a., faint, weak, feeble, inert, powerless, inactive, languid: incitare languentes, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38; cf.: commovere languentem id. de Or. 2, 44, 186: nostris languentibus atque animo remissis, Caes. B. C. 2, 14: languenti stomacho esse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13: irritamentum Veneris languentis, Juv. 11, 167: vox languens, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133: cor, Cat. 64, 97: hyacinthus, drooping, Verg. A. 11, 69; so, ramus, Suet. Aug. 92.

3. langueó — Walde–Hofmann

langueó, -wi, -&re „matt, schlaff sein, welken u. dgl.; abgespannt, unlustig sein“ (seit Lucil. und Acc., rom. (2- seit Tert.), ebenso Zanguidus, -a, -um „matt, schlaff seit Acc. [-ulus seit Cic. u. Catull] und languor, -öris m. „Mattigkeit, Schlaffheit* (vlt, u. rom. „Krankheit] seit Plaut.; vgl. noch languéscó seit Cic, [8- seit Varro], Zanguefaciö Cic, languifieus seit Q. Cic., languedö, lenguitàs, languetudo … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. langueó, p. 790]

In the wild

languente Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.5.9
languentia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.797
languentis Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.7
languetque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.765
languenti Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
languentibus Silius Italicus, Punica 14.592

6 of 175 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. langueO (scan pp. 339-340; entry #868). Root candidates: *slaks-, *lag-, *lagso-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. langueó (scan pp. 790-794; entry #1496). Root candidates: *slag-, *leng-, *sleug-.

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