vescus

Back-formation from vēscor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈweːs.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛs.kus]

vēscus (feminine vēsca, neuter vēscum); first/second-declension adjective

1. lean

   Synonyms: exīlis, tenuis

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.175:

     intereā pūbī indomitae nōn grāmina tantum
     nec vēscās salicum frondēs ulvamque palūstrem,
     sed frūmenta manū carpēs sata.

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   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 7.81:

     Corpore vēscō, sed eximiīs vīribus Tritānum, in gladiātōriō lūdō Samnītium armātūra celebrem, fīliumque eius mīlitem Magnī Pompeī et rēctōs et trāversōs cancellātim tōtō corpore habuisse nervōs, in brachiīs etiam manibusque, auctor est Varrō prōdigiosa vīrium relatione, atque etiam hostem ab eō ex prōvocātione dīmicante inermī dexterā superātum et postrēmō correptum ūnō digitō in castra trālātum.

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2. corrosive, voracious

   Synonyms: edāx, vorāx

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.325:

     nec porrō quaecumque aevō maciēque senescunt,
     nec, mare quae impendent, vēscō sale saxa perēsa
     quid quōque āmittant in tempore cernere possīs.

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3. picky with food

   Synonym: fastīdiōsus

First/second-declension adjective.

• “vescus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vescus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vescus", 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)
• vescus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN