The corpus record — Latin

rigesco

to grow stiff

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Where it lives

Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Pharsalia 6 · 1.18/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĭgesco — Lewis & Short

rĭgesco, gui, 3,

I v. inch. n. [rigeo], to grow stiff or numb; to stiffen, harden (poet.).

I Lit.

1 With cold: vestes indutae, Verg. G. 3, 363: aquae in grandines, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 155.—

2 From other causes: oratori eloquentissimo, dum ad dicendum componitur, summa riguerunt, Sen. Ira, 2, 3, 3: stillata sole rigescunt electra, Ov. M. 2, 364: ubera, id. ib. 9, 357: lacerti, id. ib. 4, 554: Gorgone corpora visā, id. ib. 5, 209 et saep.: si Parthi vos nihil calficiunt, nos non nihil frigore rigescimus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 4.—

II Transf., to stand erect, stand up, to bristle up: sensi metu riguisse capillos, Ov. F. 1, 97.—

III Trop.: numquam corrupta rigescent Saecula? i. e. will grow serious or manly, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 113.

Where it came from

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