pubescere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pubesco, pubescere, pubui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
reach physical maturity, grow body hair/to manhood; ripen (fruit), mature;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...dentes cadere imperat aetas tempore et inpubem molli pubescere veste et pariter mollem malis demittere barbam. fulmina postremo..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...videris ulla iuventae gaudia, non dulces fratris pubescere malas? hunc quoque, quicumque est, crudelis, Iasona nescis morte perire..."
