The corpus record — Latin

frondesco

to become leafy

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

frondesco — Lewis & Short

frondesco, dŭi (acc. to

Prisc. p. 768 P.), 3,

I v. inch. n. [frondeo], to become leafy, to put forth leaves, to shoot out.

I Lit. (class.): caelum nitescere, arbores frondescere, Vites pampinis pubescere, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 192 ed. Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 1092: alia hieme nudata, verno tempore tepefacta frondescunt, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37: cum subito vidit frondescere Romulus hastam, Ov. M. 15, 561; cf. id. ib. 4, 395: simili frondescit virga metallo, Verg. A. 6, 144.—*

II Trop., of speech, to be flowery: oratio verborum compositione frondescat, Hier. Ep. 36, 14.

In the wild

frondescere Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.561
frondescunt Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.37
frondescunt Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.95
frondescere Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.395
frondescet Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.24.20
frondescere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1092

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