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floruit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈflɒɹʊɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˈflɔːɹʊɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).

Meanings

1. 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 known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career. 2005, James A. Arieti, Philosophy in the Ancient World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxi:

Forms

Synonyms

flowering

Translations (10)

bo འཚོ་རིང (peak period of a person/culture/group) · bo གྲགས་པ་ཆེ་བའི་རིང (peak period of a person/culture/group) · nl bloei (peak period of a person/culture/group) · he תקופת השיא (peak period of a person/culture/group) · bo གསོན་པའི་དུས (peak period of a person/culture/group) · fi kukoistuskausi (peak period of a person/culture/group) · nl bloeitijd (peak period of a person/culture/group) · fi kukoistus (peak period of a person/culture/group) · pl floruit (peak period of a person/culture/group) · nl bloeiperiode (peak period of a person/culture/group)

floruit en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈflɒɹʊɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˈflɔːɹʊɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).

Meanings

1. (defective, qualifier:rare except abbreviated) 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.
   • Mīrā (Bai). Floruit 16th century. Rajasthan's most famous female saint and poetess of Kṛṣṇa bhakti. 2003, Banāsā, Banasa: A Spiritual Autobiography, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 86:
   • J. Joyce (floruit 1850) In 1926 Svevo wrote a letter to James Joyce in Paris inquiring if he were related to the J. Joyce who in 1850 had had printed and published by Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste a book[...] 1993 November 15, Joseph Cary, A Ghost in Trieste, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 230:
   • 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. 1895, Arthur Cayley Headlam, The Church Quarterly Review, page 155:

Forms

Translations (1)

cmn 活躍於 /活跃于 (Translations)