floruit
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floruit
- /ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/ US
- /ˈflɔːɹʊɪt/ UK
- /ˈflɒɹʊɪt/ UK
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Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).
verb fl. · flor.
- Lived, flourished; used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive or known to have been notably active, when dates of birth and/or death are not known. Marius Mercator must have shared the vigour of Alcimus, for he floruit in 218 according to Mr. Miller , while he at any rate existed in 418.
noun floruits · fl. · flor.
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The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not kno
Similar: flowering
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| 中文 | 活躍於 /活跃于 huóyuèyú |
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noun peak period of a person/culture/group
| עברית | תקופת השיא t'kufat hasí |
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