The corpus record — Latin

in-cānesco

to become white

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What it meant

in-cānesco — Lewis & Short

in-cānesco, canŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become white, to turn gray or hoary (poet.): tortaque remigio spumis incanuit unda, Cat. 63, 13: ornusque incanuit albo Flore piri, Verg. G. 2, 71: gelu magnoque incanuit imbre Caucasus, Val. Fl. 6, 611: cum pigra incanuit aetas, Sil. 3, 328.

Where it came from

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