verb
līvesco
Meaning
- to turn black and blue, become livid
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
līvor fīōlīvēscō -ere — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 20
līvesco, ĕre,
I. v. n., to turn black and blue, become livid:
digiti, Lucr. 3, 528; Scrib. Comp. 181.—* II. Trop., to envy, be envious:
nec enim livescere fas est, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 27.