FADE Copy link • FADEdeflorescere (PROP., of flowers; also figuratively; e.g., of delights; amores et deliciae mature et celeriter deflorescunt, Quint.): marcere (to wither; PROP. of garlands, etc., poetically; IMPROP., Liv.; not Cic. or Caes.): marcescere (to begin to wither; not Cic. or Caes.: Plin.; also, IMPROP., of colors, Plin., 37, 9, 41): emarcescere (only figuratively, and extremely rare): decolorari or decolorem fieri (to lose its color; general term): flaccescere (to grow flaccid by losing its moisture; frons, Vitr.). TRANS. To cause to fade (= wither), either by circumlocution with efficere ut deflorescat, marceat, etc.; marcidum reddere; or siccare, torrere, torrefacere (to dry up). To cause to fade (= grow pa ler), colorem ex aliqua re eripere (to take out the color; e.g., solis radii lambendo colorem... eripiunt); *pallidum or decolorem reddere: hebetare (to make a bright object dull, Plin.). Faded, marcidus (mostly poetically and post-Augustan): marcens (mostly poetically; both, also, IMPROP.): qui (quae, quod) defloruit.