Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

evanescent

 

tending to fade away or disappear, transitory

 

Like life itself, both pleasure and pain are evanescent.

 

Related English words: evanesce (to vanish), evanscence

 

Latin root words: evansco, evanescere, evanui - to vanish, disappear, pass away; vanesco, vanescere - to pass away, vanish 

 

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