tardesco — Lewis & Short
tardesco, ĕre,
I v. inch. n., to become slow:
tardescit lingua,grows sluggish, hesitates, stammers, Lucr. 3, 479; Tib. 1, 4, 27.
The corpus record — Latin
tardesco
tardesco
to become slow
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- tardescit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.479
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.