The corpus record — Latin

exalbesco

to become white

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Where it lives

Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ex-albesco — Lewis & Short

ex-albesco, bŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become white.

I Lit. (very rarely), Gell. 12, 1, 12.—More freq.,

II Trop., to grow white, turn pale from fright, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218; and in Fin. 5, 11, 31; Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48; id. de Or. 1, 26, 121.

In the wild

exalbescerent Cicero, Lucullus 48.p1
exalbescam Cicero, De Oratore 1.121
exalbuit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.1.12

Where it came from

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