verb intransitive

con-dŏlesco

2nd PP con-dŏlescere · 3rd PP con-dŏlesclŭi · conj. 3rd

to feel severe pain, to suffer much, to be in pain; distress, to ache

v. inch. n. [doleo], to feel severe pain, to suffer much, to be in pain or distress, to ache.

temp. perf ••

Prop. (rare, but class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in temp. perf.): mihi de vento miserae condoluit caput, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 2; so in perf.: latus ei dicenti, Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: pes, dens, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: homines, quorum alter ne condoluisse quidem umquam videtur, id. ib. 1, 18, 41: tentatum frigore corpus, * Hor. S. 1, 1, 80: admonitu matris, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 32: naturā (hominem) condolescere dicerent, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 38: ad suspitionem tactūs condolescunt (ulcera), Sen. Ira, 3, 9, 5.—*

To suffer; sympathize with

To suffer or sympathize with: anima corpori laeso ... condolescit Tert. Anim. 5.

Perseus ID: n10035 Key: condolesco