adolescerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adolesco, adolescere, adolevi, adultus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grow up, mature, reach manhood/peak; become established/strong; grow, increase;; burn, blaze up, flame, be kindled; (of a sacrifice);
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...eluci tarditatem, corporaque eorum inprocera fieri minusque adolescere. Idem plerique alii medicorum philosophorumque et M. Varro in logistorico..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...satis omnibus fructibusque arborum nihil ad iustam magnitudinem adolescere potest quod loco in quem crescat caret. Nec pictura..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quis conducat cortice ramos, crescendo iungi pariterque adolescere cernit, sic ubi conplexu coierunt membra tenaci, nec duo sunt..."