swoon (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. dēfectio, ōnis, f.2. *syncŏpē, es, or syncŏpa, ae, f. (very late, and not to be used in writing Lat.). Phr. • swoon (subs.): 1. dēfectio, ōnis, f.: Plin. 23, prooem. § 4. 2. *syncŏpē, es, or syncŏpa, ae, f. (very late, and not to be used in writing Lat.). Phr.: to fall down in a s., collabi, Suet. Ner. 42.
swoon (v.) Copy link Outline 1. intermŏrior, mortuus, 32. linqui animo • swoon (v.): 1. intermŏrior, mortuus, 3: after s.ing in the very meeting he died not long afterwards, in ipsa contione i. haud multo post exspiravit, Liv. 37, 53: s.ing from loss of blood, sanguinis profluvio intermorientes, Cels. 5, 26, 25. 2. linqui animo: Sen. de Ir. 1, 12, 1: v. to faint. Phr.: his bowels being so relaxed that he s.'d, alvo usque ad defectionem soluta, Suet. Vesp. 24: Sextius s.s, relinquit animus Sextium, Caes. B. G. 6, 38.
SWOON Copy link • SWOON 1. s. subita defectio (Suet., Calig., 50); in more modern Latin, deliquium, syncope (medical technical term). 2. v. animus aliquem linquit, deficit (Curt.): anima deficit (Cels., 1, 17): animo linqui aliquis coepit (Curt.): animo linqui (Sen., De Ir., 1, 12, 2): animus aliquem relinquit (Caes., B.G., 6, 38): intermori (Liv.): collabi (Suet.).