obsolesco

From obs- + olēscō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ob.soˈleːs.koː/, [ɔps̠ɔˈɫ̪eːs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.soˈles.ko/, [obsoˈlɛsko]

obsolēscō (present infinitive obsolēscere, perfect active obsolēvī, supine obsolētum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to wear out
2. to fall into disuse
3. to grow old
4. to decay

• The form obsolētus exists in active meaning (as with other intransitive verbs).

• obsolētus

• English: obsolesce

• “obsolesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obsolesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obsolesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing is going out of use, becoming obsolete: res obsolescit
    
• “obsolesce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.