Latin

Verb

langueō ‎(present infinitive languēre); second conjugation, no perfect

1. I am faint, weak.
2. (figuratively) I am inactive, listless, idle.

Inflection

• No perfect or supine forms.

Derived terms

Related terms

• languidē
• languidulus

Descendants

• Albanian: lëngoj
• French: languir
• Italian: languire
• Portuguese: languir

References

• langueo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• langueo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “langueo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: (in) otio languere et hebescere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill