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The corpus record — Latin

vigesco

vigesco

to become lively

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭgesco — Lewis & Short

vĭgesco, gŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [vigeo], to become lively or vigorous; to thrive, to begin to flourish or bloom (class.): de niloque renata vigescere copia rerum, Lucr. 1, 674; 1, 757: jam laeti studio pedes vigescunt, Cat. 46, 8: vestrae tum arae, vestrae religiones viguerunt, vestra vis valuit, Cic. Mil. 31, 85: diu legiones Caesaris viguerunt, nunc vigent Pansae, vigent Hirtii, etc., id. Phil. 11, 15, 39: summis honoribus et multā eloquentiā, Tac. A. 14, 19.

In the wild

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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