The corpus record — Latin

fracesco

to become soft

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

frăcesco — Lewis & Short

frăcesco, fracŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [FRACEO; v. fraces and FRACEBUNT], to become soft or mellow, to rot, spoil: olea lecta si nimium diu fuit in acervis, caldore fracescit, et oleum foetidum fit, Varr. R. R. 55, 5 sq.; so, oleum, becomes rancid, Col. 1, 6, 18: (terram cretosam) sinito quatriduum fracescat; ubi bene fracuerit, rutro concidito, to become soft, tractable, Cato, R. R. 128.

In the wild

fracescat Cato, De agri cultura 128
fracescit Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.6.18
fracuerit Cato, De agri cultura 128

Where it came from

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