evanesco

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out of”) +‎ vānēscō (“disappear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.u̯aːˈneːs.koː/, [eːu̯äːˈneːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.vaˈnes.ko/, [eväˈnɛsko]

Verb

ēvānēscō (present infinitive ēvānēscere, perfect active ēvānuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to vanish, disappear, pass away
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.276–278:

     [...] Tālī Cyllēnius ōre locūtus
     mortālis vīsus mediō sermōne relīquit,
     et procul in tenuem ex oculīs ēvānuit auram.

     Having uttered such [words] from his lips, the Cyllenian [god] – [still] in the midst of speaking – abandoned mortal visibility, and from before the eyes [of Aeneas, Mercury] vanished into thin air.
     (Mercury had been born on Mount Cyllene; his divine apparition appears suddenly, rebukes Aeneas, and disappears abruptly.)

2. to fade away, or die out
3. to lapse

Conjugation

   Conjugation of ēvānēscō (third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ēvānēscō		ēvānēscis		ēvānēscit		ēvānēscimus		ēvānēscitis		ēvānēscunt
	imperfect	ēvānēscēbam		ēvānēscēbās		ēvānēscēbat		ēvānēscēbāmus		ēvānēscēbātis		ēvānēscēbant
	future	ēvānēscam		ēvānēscēs		ēvānēscet		ēvānēscēmus		ēvānēscētis		ēvānēscent
	perfect	ēvānuī		ēvānuistī		ēvānuit		ēvānuimus		ēvānuistis		ēvānuērunt, ēvānuēre
	pluperfect	ēvānueram		ēvānuerās		ēvānuerat		ēvānuerāmus		ēvānuerātis		ēvānuerant
	future perfect	ēvānuerō		ēvānueris		ēvānuerit		ēvānuerimus		ēvānueritis		ēvānuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ēvānēscam		ēvānēscās		ēvānēscat		ēvānēscāmus		ēvānēscātis		ēvānēscant
	imperfect	ēvānēscerem		ēvānēscerēs		ēvānēsceret		ēvānēscerēmus		ēvānēscerētis		ēvānēscerent
	perfect	ēvānuerim		ēvānuerīs		ēvānuerit		ēvānuerīmus		ēvānuerītis		ēvānuerint
	pluperfect	ēvānuissem		ēvānuissēs		ēvānuisset		ēvānuissēmus		ēvānuissētis		ēvānuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		ēvānēsce		—		—		ēvānēscite		—
	future	—		ēvānēscitō		ēvānēscitō		—		ēvānēscitōte		ēvānēscuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		ēvānēscere			—			ēvānēscēns			—
perfect		ēvānuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		ēvānēscendī		ēvānēscendō		ēvānēscendum		ēvānēscendō		—		—

Related terms

• vānēscō

Descendants

• → English: evanesce
• Galician: esvaecer, esvaír
• Spanish: desvanecer, evanescer
• Portuguese: desvanecer
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exvanire
  • Catalan: esvanir
  • Old French: esvanir, evanir
    • French: évanouir, vanouir
    • → English: evanish, vanish
  • Italian: svanire

References

• “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “evanesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• evanesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
    
  • those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
    
  • hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
    

Spanish

Verb

evanesco

1. first-person singular present indicative of evanescer