fade Copy link Outline 1. marcesco, 3 (to droop)2. dēflōresco, ui, 3 (strictly to shed the flower)3. palleo, pallesco, ui (to lose colour • fade: 1. marcesco, 3 (to droop): things which bloom most charmingly f. most quickly, quae spectatissime florent celerrime marcescunt, Plin. Fig.: strength fading with old age, marcescentes senio vires, Plin.: v. to droop, wither. 2. dēflōresco, ui, 3 (strictly to shed the flower): when the flower of the bean has faded, ubi defloruit faba, Plin. Fig.: the mind flourishes and f.s with the body, cum corporibus vigent et d. animi, Liv. 6, 23. 3. palleo, pallesco, ui (to lose colour: poet.): the leaves f., pallescunt frondes, Ov. A. A. 3, 704: day f.s, pallet dies, Lucan: lest the diseased crops f. from the badness of the weather, ne vitio coeli palleat aegra seges, Ov. F. 1, 688. Phr.: the colour of a thing f.s, excidit (perit) color (alicui rei), cf. Ov. Met. 2, 601: how soon f. earth's purple hues, quam cito purpureos deperdit terra colores, Tib. 1, 4, 29.
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.
fade Copy link fade, insulsus. infacetus od. inficetus (ohne Geist u. Witz). frigidus (ohne Geist u. Leben, z.B. negotia). inanis (leer, gehaltlos, z.B. reprehensio); verb. frigidus et inanis. fades Zeug, res insulsae, infacetae od. inficetae; insulsa (n. pl.): infaceta od. inficeta (n. pl); frigida (n. pl.); inania (n. pl.); frigida et inania (n. pl.). Adv.infacete od. inficete; frigide.