The corpus record — Latin

flavesco

to become golden yellow

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flāvesco — Lewis & Short

flāvesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [flaveo], to become golden yellow or gold-colored, to turn a light yellow (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): molli paulatim flavescet campus arista, Verg. E. 4, 28: flavescere haphe, Mart. 7, 66, 5; so of gold, id. 9, 24, 1; Ov. M. 8, 703: ne (ebur) flavescere possit, id. Am. 2, 5, 39: folium fagi celerrime flavescens, Plin. 16, 6, 7, § 18; cf. id. 19, 8, 47, § 159; 15, 29, 36, § 121; Vulg. Prov. 23, 31.

In the wild

flavescit Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.36
flavescere Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 17.13
flavescere Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.262
flavescens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.27
flavescunt Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.3.5
flavescit Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.188

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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