The corpus record — Latin

tumesco

to begin to swell

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 4 · 4.74/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tŭmesco — Lewis & Short

tŭmesco, mŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [tumeo], to begin to swell, to swell up (poet. and in postAug. prose).

I Lit.: inflatum mare cum subito penitusque tumescit, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: vi maria, Verg. G. 2, 479: freta ventis, Ov. M. 1, 36: inflata colla, id. ib. 6, 377: vulnera, Tac. H. 2, 77: fluvius tabe nivis, Luc. 10, 244: suco herba, Sen. Herc. Fur. 936: matura virginitas, Claud. Epith. 125.—

II Trop., to swell up, become swollen with passionate excitement, to become excited, violent, ready to burst forth: rumpor et ora mihi pariter cum mente tumescunt (with anger), Ov. H. 8, 57: rabie, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 242.—

B To be puffed up with pride or insolence: mens aut languescit aut contra tumescit inani persuasione, Quint. 1, 2, 18; so with pride: serviles animi alte, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 176: Ly dia Pactoli fonte, id. II. Cons. Stil. 61: (monet) operta tumescere bella, are fermenting, threatening to break out, Verg. G. 1, 465; cf.: tumescens bellum, Vell. 2, 15, 2.

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