The corpus record — Latin

vireo1

vireo1 · v. n

to be green

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 73.8/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 11 · 13.02/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Mosella 4 · 12.3/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
Octavia 6 · 11.47/10k
Ex Ponto 21 · 10.12/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 4 · 10.09/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k

Densest 12 of 164 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vĭrĕo — Lewis & Short

vĭrĕo, ui, ēre, v. n.,

I to be green or verdant (syn. viridor).

I Lit.: alia semper virent, alia, hieme nudatā, verno tempore tepefacta frondescunt, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37: fronde virere novā, Verg. A. 6, 206: quo viret uva jugo, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 78: quod pubes hederā virente Gaudeat, Hor. C. 1, 25, 17: summa (montis) pinu, Ov. F. 5, 382: lucus, id. M. 14, 837: agellus, Hor. A. P. 117: stagna musco, Verg. G. 4, 18: circa ilicibus virentem Alburnum, id. ib. 3, 146: pectora felle, Ov. M. 2, 777: metalla Taygeti, of the green Spartan marble, Mart. 6, 42, 11; 9, 76, 9.—

II Trop., to be fresh, vigorous, or lively; to flourish, bloom: vegetum ingenium vivido pectore vigebat, virebatque integris sensibus, Liv. 6, 22, 7; cf. Hor. C. 1, 9, 17: Chia, id. ib. 4, 13, 6: dum virent genua, id. Epod. 13, 4: aetas populi Romani viruit, Flor. 1, 22: ut novus serpens ... solet squamā virere recenti, Ov. M. 9, 267: virium gloriā virente florere, Just. 4, 4, 5.

2. vĭrĕo — Lewis & Short

vĭrĕo, ōnis, m.,

I a kind of bird; acc. to some, the greenfinch, Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 292.

3. vireö — Walde–Hofmann

vireö, -u2, -ere „bin grün (von Pflanzen); bin kräftig“ (seit Plaut. und Cato), viresco, -ere „fange an zu grünen“ (seit Luer., Verg. usw., in Prosa seit Colum.), viridis, -e „grün“; spätl. „jung, frisch“ (Svennung Unt. 613) (seit Cic., rom. neben *virdis ; vgl.viride, -isn. „dasGrün, die grüne Farbe; die grünen Gewächse, Bäume, Gras“ seit Liv., Plur. viridia, -ium n. „grüne Gewächse, Rasenflächen usw." seit Vitr., … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vireö, p. 1705]

In the wild

viresque Statius, Thebais 12.600
viret Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.15.p1
vires Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.6.3
vires Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.116.8
vires Ovid, Fasti 4.541
virens Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.11.p4

6 of 1,184 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vireö (scan pp. 1705-1707; entry #3269). Root candidates: *uis-, *uei-.

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