dē-caulesco — Lewis & Short
dē-caulesco, ĕre, v. n.caulis,
I to form a stem, run to stalk:
raphanus antequam decaulescat,Plin. 19, 7, 36, § 122.
The corpus record — Latin
decaulesco
decaulesco · v. n
to form a stem, run to stalk
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- decaulescat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.7.p2
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.