The corpus record — Latin

liquesco

to become fluid

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lĭquesco — Lewis & Short

lĭquesco, lĭcŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [liqueo], to become fluid or liquid, to melt.

I Lit.: tabes nivis liquescentis, Liv. 21, 36: haec ut cera liquescit, Verg. E. 8, 80; Ov. M. 5, 431: volnificusque chalybs vastā fornace liquescit, Verg. A. 8, 446; Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162: corpora foeda jacent ... dilapsa liquescunt, i. e. putrefy, Ov. M. 7, 550.—

B Transf.

1 To become clear, limpid: aqua liquescit ac subsidit, Auct. B. Alex. 5.—

2 Of the liquid sound of l, m, n, r with other consonants, to merge, coalesce, be confined with other sounds: eorum sonus liquescit et tenuatur, Val. Prob. p. 1389 P.—

II Trop.

A To grow soft, effeminate: qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52. —

B To melt or waste away: fortuna liquescit, Ov. Ib. 425.—Of a person: minui et deperire, et, ut proprie dicam, liquescere, Sen. Ep. 26.

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