weary (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. lassus2. languĭdus (faint from weariness)3. fessus, fătīgātus, etc. (these words expressing fatigue from actual exertion, which weary in English does not always imply) • weary (adj.): 1. lassus: I have come w. from a journey, lassus veni de via, Pl. Ps. 2, 2, 66: poppies with w. (drooping) neck, lasso papavera collo, Virg. Aen. 9, 436. 2. languĭdus (faint from weariness): the oxen drawing the plough with w. neck, vomerem boves collo trahentes languido, Hor. Epod. 2, 64. 3. fessus, fătīgātus, etc. (these words expressing fatigue from actual exertion, which weary in English does not always imply): v. wearied. Phr.: to grow weary (tired): fatigari, lassari: I am w. of this: taedet me hujus rei, satietas me tenet (where dislike is more predominant than fatigue): v. wearisome.
weary (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.1. fătīgo, 12. dēfătīgo, 1 (to w. out)3. lasso, 1 (poet.)4. obtundo, tŭdi, tūsum, 3 (to w. by importunity)B. Intrans.1. dēfătīgor, 1 dep.; I will never rest nor w., nunquam conquiescam neque defatigabor, Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145.2. dēfĕtiscor, fessus, 3 • weary (v.): A. Trans.: 1. fătīgo, 1: when they had w.'d themselves with fighting, quum pugna semet ipsi fatigassent, Liv. 8, 10, init. 2. dēfătīgo, 1 (to w. out): when they w.'d out our men with constant labours, quum nostros assiduo labore defatigarent, Caes. B. G. 7, 41. 3. lasso, 1 (poet.): that a longer letter w. not your weak body, longior infirmum ne lasset epistola corpus, Ov. Her. 20, 241. 4. obtundo, tŭdi, tūsum, 3 (to w. by importunity): do not w. me over and over again on this matter, ne me obtundas de hac re saepius, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 33: that lengthiness may not be thought to have w.'d your hearers, ne longitudo obtudisse aures videatur, Cic. Or. 66, 221. B. Intrans.: to weary of a thing: 1. dēfătīgor, 1 dep.; I will never rest nor w., nunquam conquiescam neque defatigabor, Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145. 2. dēfĕtiscor, fessus, 3: I will not w. of trying, non defetiscar experirier, Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 23: v. to tire.
WEARY Copy link • WEARY 1. adj., fessus (of want of strength arising from exhaustion): fatigatus (worn out): lassus (tired, denoting want of strength which unfits for action). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fessus lassusque. Thoroughly weary, defessus: defatigatus; lassitudine confectus: weary with labor, affectus fatigatione laboris: weary with running, cursu et lassitudine exanimatus: I am quite weary, omnia membra lassitudo mini tenet (comedy): to make anybody weary, aliquem fatigare or (entirely) defatigare; aliquem lassum facere or reddere (of persons or things); aliquem lassare (of things): to grow or become weary, fatigari; lassari; (thoroughly) defatigari; lassitudine confici: (figuratively) weary of asking and waiting for an answer, interrogando et exspectando responsum fessus: weary of war, bello fessus (but ☞ fessus here really denotes a being weary, whilst the English “weary” in these expressions implies only disgust; so that “weary” cannot always be rendered by fessus): I am weary of a thing (i. e., disgusted with it), me tenet alicujus rei satietas; me taedet alicujus rei: I am weary (of waiting, etc), rumpo or abrumpo patientiam (☞ not patientia mihi rumpitur; Vid: Suet., Tib., 25: Tac., Ann., 12, 50, 3). 2. v. fatigare: defatigare (PROP. and figuratively): defatigare (to weary thoroughly, even to exhaustion). To be wearied, se fatigare; by anything, aliqua re; se frangere; se frangere laboribus (by exertion).