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mollesco
mollesco
Latin
Verb
mollēscō (present infinitive mollēscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
- I become soft; I soften.
- (figuratively) I become mild, gentle.
- (figuratively) I become effeminate, unmanly.
Inflection
- This verb is defective, with only those forms based on the first principal part.
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References
- mollesco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mollesco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mollesco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.