Latin

Alternative forms

• exsolescō

Verb

exolescō ‎(present infinitive exolescere, perfect active exolēvī, supine exolētum); third conjugation

(intransitive)

1. I grow out, I attain my full size, grow up
   1. (in general) I grow up, become full-grown, I mature
   2. (in particular) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (chiefly ante-Augustan) I grow to an end, I stop growing

   Multa sunt quae neglegentiā exolescunt et fīunt sterilia.‎

   There are many that stop growing and are rendered barren by neglect.

   1. (transferred sense, in general) I grow out of use, out of date, I become obsolete, I pass away, cease

      exolescentēs litterae‎

      disappearing [i.e., rubbed off] letters

Conjugation

Derived terms

• exolētus

References

• exŏlesco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exolesco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exŏlesco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 627/1.
• “exolescō” on page 645/2–3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)