The corpus record — Latin

inaresco

to become dry in

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 34 · 0.86/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ĭn-āresco — Lewis & Short

ĭn-āresco, ārui, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become dry in any place, to dry up, become quite dry (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: in sole, Plin. 26, 8.40, § 66; for which: caenum illitum sole, id. 31, 6, 32, § 61: opus, Vitr. 7, 3: medicamenta, Cels. 5, 17 fin.: fructus ante maturitatem, Col. 4, 24, 3: germina multa cum inaruere, Plin. 27, 11, 71, § 95: nihil facilius quam lacrimas inarescere, Quint. 6, 1, 27.—

II Trop., to dry up, become exhausted: ne (liberalitas) nimia profusione inarescat, Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 4.

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