The corpus record — Latin

grandesco

to become great

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

grandesco — Lewis & Short

grandesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [grandis], to become great, to grow (poet. and in postAug. prose): quicque sua de materia grandescere alique (preceded by crescere), Lucr. 1, 191; cf. id. 2, 1122; 1160: lentiscus triplici solita grandescere fetu, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 9, 15: grandescunt frumenta, Col. 2, 20, 2: hordeum, Pall. Jun. 2: lignum intus, Plin. 15, 3, 3, § 10.

In the wild

grandescunt Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.11.10
grandesceret Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.24
grandescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.25.p8
grandescant Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.20.2
grandescere Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.728
grandescunt Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.6.p1

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Where it came from

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