The corpus record — Latin

lapidesco

to become stone, turn to stone, to petrify

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

lăpĭdesco — Lewis & Short

lăpĭdesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [lapis], to become stone, turn to stone, to petrify (Plinian): spongiae ipsae lapidescunt, Plin. 24, 13, 73, § 120: in balano lapidescit duritia, id. 16, 6, 8, § 21; 32, 2, 11, § 22.

In the wild

lapidescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.3.p4
lapidescunt Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p1
lapidescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.2.p6
lapidescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.13
lapidescat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.2.p8
lapidescit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p4

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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