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.

Anagrams

• velogen

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

longeve

1. feminine plural of longevo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɔŋ.ɡɛ.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.ve]

Adjective

longeve

1. vocative masculine singular of longevus

References

• "longeve", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)