floruit

English

Alternative forms

• fl.
• flor.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹʊɪt/, /ˈflɒɹʊɪt/

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^[1], 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.

Translations

peak period of a person/culture/group

• Finnish: kukoistus (fi), kukoistuskausi (fi)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} го́ды расцве́та pl (gódy rascvéta)

Further reading

• floruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

flōruit

1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of flōreō ([he, she or it] flourished)
2. (in post-Classical texts) was productive around the time of