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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• decay:
    1. I. As flowers: marcesco, flaccesco, dēflōresco: v. fade, wither.
    2. II. As buildings; to go to ruin:
      1. 1. dīlābor, lapsus, 3: Lucr.: Liv.: Tac. (Not labor or collabor, which denote actual falling and ruin.)
      2. 2. putresco, putris fio: i. e. to rot away: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 49: cf. decayed.
    3. III. Fig.:
      1. 1. dēfĭcio, 3: i. e. to fail, fall short: q. v.
      2. 2. dīlābor, 3 (to go to ruin: cf. supr.): the commonwealth is d.ing, respublica dilabitur: Cic.: Hor.
      3. 3. mĭnuo, dīmĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (in pass.): memory d.s (with years), memoria minuitur, Cic.: v. diminish.
      4. 4. sĕnesco, ui, 3 (lit. to grow old: very freq.): to d. and soon to come to nought, s. brevique tempore ad nihilum venire, Cic.: opp. to cresco, Nep.: love d.s, s. amor, Ov.
      5. 5. tābesco, 3: v. WASTE AWAY. Comp. foll. art.
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• decay (subs.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. cărĭes, ēi, f. (rot): d. spreading beneath the bark, c. cortici subnascens, Plin.
      2. 2. tābes, is, f. (wasting away): d. and death (of trees), t. morsque (arborum), Plin.
      3. 3. putrēdo, ĭnis, f.: v. rot.
    2. II. Fig.:
      1. 1. (from old age): sĕnium: inactivity and d. of the mind, torpor mentis ac s., Sen.: to go to d. (of laws), senio emori, Gell.
      2. 2. dēfectio: d. of strength, d. virium, Cic.
      3. 3. dīmĭnūtĭo: d. of a family, d. familiae, Plin. Phr.: to go to d., dilabi, senescere, etc.: see verb, also foll. art.
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• DECAY
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  • v. INTRANS., in ruinam pronum esse (PROP., to be near falling): labi (PROP., to fall in; e.g., of a house, of the cheeks, then figuratively to sink, to become worse; e.g., of a breed or race, of manners, of sciences): collabi (to be falling to ruins; PROP., of buildings; figuratively, of the state): dilabi (PROP., to separate from each other; e.g., of the parts of buildings, of walls; then figuratively to be going downwards; e.g., of the state): macrescere (to fall away, of living beings): tabescere (to waste away, of living beings): marcescere (fade away; hence, languish, grow weak; e.g., marcescentes senio vires, Plin.; marcescere desidia, Liv.): deminui (of the moon, also of strength; it would be wrong to use diminui, Vid: Ochs., Cic., Ecl., p. 13): minui; minuere (to be lessened; e.g., of the memory): my strength decays or fails me, viribus senesco, or deficior; vires extenuantur, deficiunt: my memory decays, memoria labat, minuitur; deficior memoria: zeal and hope decay together, studium cum spe senescit: the power of the Athenians decays, opes Atheniensium senescunt: to decay or be reduced to poverty, ad inopiam or egestatem or paupertatem redigi.
  • TRANS., imbecillum or infirmum reddere; attenuare; vitiare (see WEAKEN). A decayed tooth, densexesus: dens cavus or cavatus (hollow): decayed (= reduced to poverty), ad inopiam, egestatem or paupertatem redactus: beams that are decayed, asseres marcidi (Vitrvius).
2. deminutio: defectio virium; vires corporis affectae: of the understanding, deminutio mentis. To fall to decay, to go to decay. Vid. DECAY, v. INTR.