English → Latin
“dwindle” in Latin
dēcrēscōto grow less or shorter, decrease, wane, dwindle; to vanish, fade, disappear, pass away by diminutiondīminuōto break into small pieces; to shatter; to violate, outrage; to diminish, lessentābēscōto gradually melt or dissolve; to dwindle away, waste awaycontābēscōto waste slowly away; to be consumedsenēscōto become aged, grow old, age; to decay or diminish in strength, grow weak, weaken; waste away, wane, decline, dwindle; hebēscōto become blunt or dull; to become blunt, dull, dim, faint, ineffectivedēgenerōto degenerate, deteriorate; to be inferior to ancestors; to corrupt, render degenerated
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dwindle
decrescere: diminui (general terms): tabescere: contabescere (waste away and be consumed by some inner principle ofdissolution): rarescere (become rare, common, dwindle as to numbers): senescere (to become old; and figuratively, to die away, of strength, hope, peril, zeal, etc.): hebescere (to grow blunt, of intellectual powers, etc.): extenuari et evanescere (to become attenuated and so disappear: figuratively of hope, Cic.): degenerare (to degenerate).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dwindle?
- The usual Latin words for “dwindle” are dēcrēscō, dīminuō, tābēscō; also contābēscō, senēscō, hebēscō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.