The corpus record — Latin

defloresco

to fade, decay, decline

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 11 · 1.4/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

dē-flōresco — Lewis & Short

dē-flōresco, rui, 3,

I v. n., to drop its blossoms; to fade, wither.

I Lit.: omne frumentum ... deflorescit, Col. 2, 11 fin.; so in praes., id. 2, 10, 19; Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 286: cum (faba) defloruit, exiguas (aquas) desiderat, id. 18, 12, 30, § 120; so in the perf., Catull. 62, 43.—

II Trop., to fade, decay, decline: cum corporibus vigere et deflorescere animos, Liv. 29, 4; cf.: cum senecta res quoque defloruere, id. 38, 53 fin.: non talis, qualem tu eum jam deflorescentem cognovisti, Cic. Brut. 92: deliciae mature et celeriter deflorescunt, id. Cael. 19.

In the wild

deflorescit Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.11.10
defloruit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.7.p5
defloruerit Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.11.10
deflorescentibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p8
deflorescunt Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.1.7
defloruit Catullus, Carmina long_poems.62

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