The corpus record — Latin

silvesco

to grow

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Where it lives

De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k

What it meant

silvesco — Lewis & Short

silvesco (sylv-), ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [id.], of the grape-vine, to grow or run wild, to run to wood: (vitis) ne silvescat sarmentis, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: nec pati vitem silvescere, Col. 4, 11, 2.—

II Transf.: capilli silvescentium crinium velleribus involuti, Arn. 3, p. 109.

In the wild

silvescat Cicero, De Senectute 52

Where it came from

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