Definition of floruit in English:
floruit
(also flor., fl.)
verbˈflɒrʊɪtˈflɔːrʊɪtˈflɔr(j)əwət
Used in conjunction with a specified period or set of dates to indicate when a particular historical figure lived, worked, or was most active.
Example sentencesExamples
- Pherekydes, floruit ca. 440, provides the first attestation of this version of the myth, though it may have existed prior to this date.
- Something by Gough should be out of copyright (he was floruiting during WWI).
- The principal German type was the three- or four-voice Tenorlied, which floruited c 1450- c 1550.
noun ˈflɒrʊɪtˈflɔːrʊɪtˈflɔr(j)əwət
The period during which a historical figure lived or worked.
they place Nicander's floruit in the middle of the 2nd century BC
Example sentencesExamples
- Zeuxis' floruit is given by Pliny as 397 bc, but Plato portrays him as young and newly arrived in Athens c. 430.
- Born perhaps c. 575-570 (Eusebius gives his floruit as 536 / 5), he probably joined in the foundation of Abdera in Thrace by the Teans fleeing before the threat of the Persian general Harpagus in 545.
Origin
Latin, literally 'he or she flourished', from florere 'to flourish'.
Definition of floruit in US English:
floruit
(also fl., flor.)
verbˈflôr(y)əwətˈflɔr(j)əwət
Used in conjunction with a specified period or set of dates to indicate when a particular historical figure lived, worked, or was most active.
Example sentencesExamples
- Something by Gough should be out of copyright (he was floruiting during WWI).
- Pherekydes, floruit ca. 440, provides the first attestation of this version of the myth, though it may have existed prior to this date.
- The principal German type was the three- or four-voice Tenorlied, which floruited c 1450- c 1550.
nounˈflôr(y)əwətˈflɔr(j)əwət
The period during which a historical figure lived or worked.
they place Nicander's floruit in the middle of the 2nd century BC
Example sentencesExamples
- Born perhaps c. 575-570 (Eusebius gives his floruit as 536 / 5), he probably joined in the foundation of Abdera in Thrace by the Teans fleeing before the threat of the Persian general Harpagus in 545.
- Zeuxis' floruit is given by Pliny as 397 bc, but Plato portrays him as young and newly arrived in Athens c. 430.
Origin
Latin, literally ‘he or she flourished’, from florere ‘to flourish’.