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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- pinguesco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [pinguis], to become or grow fat. I. 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.—II. Transf. A. To grow fat, rich, or oily: vinum Maroneum vetustate pinguescit
, Plin. 14, 4, 6, 54: nuces juglandes
, id. 19, 5, 30, 95.—B. To become shining, like fat: achates politurā pinguescit
, Plin. 37, 10, 65, 177.—C. To aspirate in speaking: Aeolenses Graeci, in quibusdam dictionibus, ut pinguescant, digamma apponunt ut pro Elena dicunt Velena, Serg. p. 1827 P.—III. Poet., to increase, grow more violent: flammae pinguescunt
, Sil. 7, 354.
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