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renascor

to be born again; to grow

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-nascor — Lewis & Short

rĕ-nascor, ātus, 3,

I v. dep. n., to be born again; to grow, rise, or spring up again (class.; cf. regeneror).

I Lit.: res quaeque ... De niloque renata forent, Lucr. 1, 542: de nilo, id. 1, 674; 757; cf.: corpore de patrio parvus phoenix, Ov. M. 15, 402: ex se ipsa phoenix, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 43: nec te Pythagorae fallant arcana renati, Hor. Epod. 15, 21: ut revixisse aut renatum sibi quisque Scipionem imperatorem dicat, Liv. 26, 41, 25: illi qui mihi pinnas inciderant, nolunt easdem renasci. Sed, ut spero, jam renascuntur, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 5: fibrae, Verg. A. 6, 600: dentes, Plin. 11, 37, 64, § 168: dente renato, Juv. 14, 11: amarantus, Plin. 21, 8, 23, § 47. —

B Transf., to come forth again, rise, or spring up again: velut ab stirpibus laetius feraciusque renatae urbis, Liv. 6, 1, 3; cf.: tot nascentia templa, tot renata, Mart. 6, 4, 3: ubi terreno Lycus (fluvius) est epotus hiatu, Exsistit procul hinc alioque renascitur orbe, i. e. comes forth again, reappears, Ov. M. 15, 274: flumen fonte novo, Luc. 3, 262. —

II Trop., to be renewed, to revive: principium exstinctum nec ipsum ab alio renascetur, nec ex se aliud creabit, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54; id. Rep. 6, 24, 27: bellum renatum, id. Fam. 11, 14, 3; so, bellum, Liv. 9, 12: bellum ex integro, Tac. H. 3, 59: multa (vocabula) renascentur, quae jam cecidere, Hor. A. P. 70: Trojae renascens Fortuna, id. C. 3, 3, 61: dies, Sen. Herc. Oet. 862; Inscr. Orell. 2352. — Esp.,

B (In eccl. Lat.) To be renewed in heart, to be born again, Vulg. Johan. 3, 3; 4; id. 1 Pet. 1, 23.

In the wild

renascuntur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.10.p1
renasci Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p5
renascentem Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 83
renascitur Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.274
renascuntur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.13
renasci Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p15

6 of 77 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. renascor (scan p. 454; entry #7301).

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