The corpus record — Latin

valesco

to grow strong

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Where it lives

Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k

What it meant

vălesco — Lewis & Short

vălesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [valeo], to grow strong, acquire strength (rare; not in Cic.): (puerorum aetas) tali pacto recreata valescat, Lucr. 1, 942; 4, 17: sucus ex quo omne corpus valescit, Ambros. de Noë et Arca, 9, 28.—

II Trop.: scelera impetu, bona consilia mora valescere, Tac. H. 1, 32: falsa, id. A. 2, 39: superstitiones, id. ib. 11, 15: meditatio et labor in posterum, id. ib. 4, 61.

In the wild

valescit Tacitus, Annales 4.p61
valescant Tacitus, Annales 11.p15
valescere Tacitus, Annales 13.p47
valescunt Tacitus, Annales 2.p39
valescat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.17
valescit Tacitus, Annales 6.p48

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.