longeve

English

Adjective

longeve (comparative more longeve, superlative most longeve)

  1. (largely, obsolete, uncommon) Longevous, long-lived.
    • 1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve.
    • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, page 345:
      But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them and much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : []
    • 1900, Walt Whitman, The Lamp, page 128:
      Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health []
    • 2003, Paolo Santangelo, Sentimental Education in Chinese History, page 444:
      The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lonˈd͡ʒɛ.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ɛve
  • Hyphenation: lon‧gè‧ve

Adjective

longeve

  1. feminine plural of longevo

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

longeve

  1. vocative masculine singular of longevus

References

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