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caduco

fleeting

adjective kah-DOO-koh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Conditions

Origin: Latin caducus, from cadere 'to fall'.

Also means

transient

Usage Note

Caduco is a literary adjective stressing the perishable, short-lived nature of something: la gloria caduca ('fleeting glory'). In botany it means 'deciduous' (foglie caduche = leaves that fall). It shares its root with the old phrase mal caduco, an archaic name for epilepsy.

Examples

"La bellezza è caduca come un fiore."

Natural Translation

Beauty is fleeting like a flower.

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