The corpus record — Latin

fermentesco

to swell

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

fermentesco — Lewis & Short

fermentesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [fermentum] (lit., to ferment, to rise in fermenting; transf., of the earth), to swell, rise, become loose (Plinian): tellus quoque illo modo (i. e. ab nive diutius sedente) fermentescit, Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 15; 28, 8, 28, § 109.

In the wild

fermentescens Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p6
fermentescit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.2.p1

Where it came from

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