floruit
/ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/verb, noun
floruit is a verb meaning “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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-R-U-I-T, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does floruit mean?
verb
- 1
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.
noun
- 1
The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce floruit?
- US /ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/
- UK /ˈflɔːɹʊɪt/
- UK /ˈflɒɹʊɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-floruit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of floruit
- fl.
- flor.
- floruits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floruit?
Floruit appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate floruit?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of floruit: fl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does floruit come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).