The corpus record — Latin

vanesco

to pass away

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Amores 3 · 1.92/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vānesco — Lewis & Short

vānesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [vanus], to pass away, disappear, vanish (poet. and in postAug. prose).

I Lit.: incipiunt gravidae vanescere nubes, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 107: Ceres in sterilem herbam, id. Am. 3, 7, 31: spiritus meus in auras, id. H. 12, 85: cuncta in cinerem, Tac. H. 5, 7: nigra sed infusā vancscat sepia lymphā, Pers. 3, 13: (nubes) pondere suo victa in latitudinem vanescebat, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 6.—

II Trop.: vanescitque absens et novus intrat amor, Ov. A. A. 2, 358: inanis credulitas tempore ipso, Tac. A. 2, 40; cf.: tempore ac spatio vanescere, id. ib. 2, 82: ira plebis, id. ib. 5, 9: dicta per auras, Ov. Am. 2, 14, 41: vos nolite pati nostrum vanescere luctum, i. e. to be in vain, Cat. 64, 199: cavendum est ne ipsa expositio vanescat, Quint. 4, 3, 8: quod magnificum alio referente fuisset, ipso qui gesserat recensente vanescit, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 15.

In the wild

Vanescit Ovid, Amores 1.8.80
vanescunt Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.266
vanescet Ovid, Epistulae 12.85
vanescebat Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16.6
vanescit Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 27.38
vanescere Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.199

6 of 30 attestations shown.

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.