The corpus record — Latin

juvenesco

To reach the age of youth, to grow up

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

jŭvĕnesco — Lewis & Short

jŭvĕnesco, nŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [juvenis].

I To reach the age of youth, to grow up (poet. and post-Aug.): vitulus ... largis juvenescit herbis, Hor. C. 4, 2, 54: ex quo juvenuit, Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 6 fin.—

II To grow young again.

A Lit.: Pylius juvenescere posset, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 41: glires aestate juvenescunt, Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224. —Of plants: rosa recisa juvenescit, Plin. 21, 11, 40, § 69.—

B Transf., to become vigorous, regain strength, flourish: gladii juvenescunt, Stat. Th. 3, 583: corpus regni juvenescit, recovers itself, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 20: continuo montes muro, id. VI. Cons. Honor. 534.

In the wild

iuvenescente Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.18.p2
iuvenescit Horace, Carmina 4.2
iuvenescere Ausonius, Epistularum 19.29
iuvenescit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.11.p6
iuvenescere Statius, Thebais 3.584
iuuenescere Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 111

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