Latin

Verb

ēvānēscō ‎(present infinitive ēvānēscere, perfect active ēvānuī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I vanish or disappear
2. I fade away, or die out
3. I lapse

Inflection

Descendants

• English: vanish
• French: évanouir
• Spanish: evanescer

Related terms

• vānēscō

References

• evanesco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• evanesco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “evanesco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
    
  • those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
    
  • hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
    

Spanish

Verb

evanesco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of evanescer.