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
- A
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...eluci tarditatem, corporaque eorum inprocera fieri minusque adolescere. Idem plerique alii medicorum philosophorumque et M. Varro in logistorico..." - M
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..." - P
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..."