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pinguesco
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Lewis Short
pinguesco, ĕre
* V. inch. n. [pinguis], to become or grow fat.
* Lit.: emaciatum armentum medicā (herbā) pinguescit,Col. 2, 11, 2: attilus (piscis) in Pado inertiā pinguescens,Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 44; 18, 14, 36, § 134: frumenta pinguescunt,id. 17, 2, 2, § 15: campos sanguine,grow fertile,Verg. G. 1, 492.
* Transf.
* To grow fat, rich, or oily: vinum Maroneum vetustate pinguescit,Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 54: nuces juglandes,id. 19, 5, 30, § 95.
* Poet., to increase, grow more violent: flammae pinguescunt,Sil. 7, 354.
* To aspirate in speaking: Aeolenses Graeci, in quibusdam dictionibus, ut pinguescant, digamma apponunt ut pro Elena dicunt Velena, Serg. p. 1827 P.
* V. inch. n. [pinguis], to become or grow fat.
* Lit.: emaciatum armentum medicā (herbā) pinguescit,Col. 2, 11, 2: attilus (piscis) in Pado inertiā pinguescens,Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 44; 18, 14, 36, § 134: frumenta pinguescunt,id. 17, 2, 2, § 15: campos sanguine,grow fertile,Verg. G. 1, 492.
* Transf.
* To grow fat, rich, or oily: vinum Maroneum vetustate pinguescit,Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 54: nuces juglandes,id. 19, 5, 30, § 95.
* Poet., to increase, grow more violent: flammae pinguescunt,Sil. 7, 354.
* To aspirate in speaking: Aeolenses Graeci, in quibusdam dictionibus, ut pinguescant, digamma apponunt ut pro Elena dicunt Velena, Serg. p. 1827 P.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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