The corpus record — Latin

latesco2

to hide one's self, lie hid, be concealed

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. lătesco — Lewis & Short

lătesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [lateo], to hide one's self, lie hid, be concealed: hic Equus a capite et longa cervice latescit, Cic. Arat. 385.

2. lātesco — Lewis & Short

lātesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [2. latus], to grow broad, to widen (not ante-Aug.): napi non in ventrem latescunt, Col. 2, 10, 24: ossa paulatim latescentia, Cels. 8, 1: bis sex latescit fascia partes, Manil. 1, 680.

In the wild

latescentia Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p6
latescit Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.10.24

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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