longeve
English
Adjective
longeve (comparative more longeve, superlative most longeve)
- (largely, obsolete, uncommon) Longevous, long-lived.
- 1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, page 345:
- But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them and much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : […]
- 1900, Walt Whitman, The Lamp, page 128:
- Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]
- 2003, Paolo Santangelo, Sentimental Education in Chinese History, page 444:
- The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years.
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lonˈd͡ʒɛ.ve/
- Rhymes: -ɛve
- Hyphenation: lon‧gè‧ve
Adjective
longeve
- feminine plural of longevo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫɔŋ.ɡɛ.wɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.ve]
Adjective
longeve
- vocative masculine singular of longevus
References
- "longeve", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)