WEAR Copy link • WEARTransitively, To waste, Vid: To carry on the body, as clothes, indutum esse aliqua re; indutui gerere aliquid (of a garment put on): gerere aliquid (general term, to have anything on the body): amictum esse aliqua re (to have anything wrapped round the body, as a cloak, etc.). To wear shoes, calceatum esse: to wear a toga, togatum esse: to wear a ring, annulum gestare digito. Intransitively. To be wasted, usu deteri, atteri. To stand wear (to wear well; of clothes), prorogare tempus (Plin., vestes quae prorogant tempus); (figuratively, of persons, to bear age well) annos ferre (Quint.). WEAR AWAY or