floruit

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Etymology

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

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Noun

floruit (plural floruits)

  1. The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
    Synonym: flowering
    • 2005, James A. Arieti, Philosophy in the Ancient World‎, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxi:
      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.

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Verb

flōruit

  1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of flōreō ( flourished)
  2. (in post-Classical texts) was productive around the time of
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