The corpus record — Latin

lassesco

to become tired, to grow weary

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lassesco — Lewis & Short

lassesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [lassus], to become tired, to grow weary (post-Aug.): ne lassescat fortuna, Plin. 7, 40, 41, § 130; 14, 2, 4, § 33: victo lassescere visu, Prud. in Symm. 2, 101: lassescere sub lorica, Hier. Ep. 22, 39: non bibet aquam et lassescet, Vulg. Isa. 44, 12.

In the wild

lassescere Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.9.p3
lassescat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.40
lassescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.16.p1
lassescere Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.101
lassescere Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p21
lassescentem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.2.p6

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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