rot Copy link Outline 1. putrēdo2. căries, ēi Cels. 8, 23. tābes, is, f. (disease causing to waste away) • rot or rottenness (subs.): 1. putrēdo: Apul. Met. 9, 13, p. 222, Elm. Vulg. Prov. xii. 4. 2. căries, ēi Cels. 8, 2: the boat is turned into r.ness, vertitur in teneram cariem (cymba), Ov. Trist. 5, 12, 27: when r. begins to grow under it, carie subnascente ei, Plin. 16, 39, 74. 3. tābes, is, f. (disease causing to waste away): when r. has attacked a tree, quum tabes invasit arborem, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 232.