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repuerasco

to become a boy again

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

rĕ-pŭĕrasco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-pŭĕrasco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n., to become a boy again.

I Lit.: quia repuerascis, Novat. ap. Non. 165, 25 (Com. Rel. p. 215 Rib.): si quis mihi deus largiatur, ut ex hac aetate repuerascam et in cunis vagiam, Cic. Sen. 23, 83.—

II Trop., to become childish; also, to play or frolic like a child, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 25: Laelium semper fere cum Scipione solitum rusticari, eosque incredibiliter repuerascere esse solitos, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 22.

In the wild

repuerascam Cicero, De Senectute 83.p2
repuerascere Plautus, Mercator 2.2
repuerascere Cicero, De Oratore 2.22
Repuerascere Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 2

Where it came from

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