The corpus record — Latin

effloresco

to bloom

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Where it lives

Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ef-flōresco — Lewis & Short

ef-flōresco, rui, 3,

I v. inch. n., to bloom or blossom.

I Lit. (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Sirach, 51, 19; id. Isa. 18, 5.—

II Trop. (repeatedly in Cic.), to bloom, spring up, flourish (in youth, beauty, etc.): ex rerum cognitione efflorescat et redundet oportet oratio, Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 20; cf.: utilitas ex amicitia, id. Lael. 27; so id. Rep. 1, 29: amor, id. Fin. 1, 20, 69: si quidem efflorescit ingenii laudibus, Cic. Cael. 31, 76.

In the wild

effloruit Cicero, De Oratore 3.185
effloruisse Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.1.p2
effloruerit Tertullian, De Pudicitia 20
effloruerunt Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 59
effloruit Statius, Thebais 10.807
efflorescat Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.11

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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