Floruit is an English word. Below you'll find 1 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Floruit in a sentence
Floruit meaning
lived, used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive, when dates of birth and/or death are not known.
Using Floruit
- The main meaning on this page is: lived, used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive, when dates of birth and/or death are not known.
Context around Floruit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 1 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Floruit
- In this selection, "floruit" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 33 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include with the floruit in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "floruit" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with floruit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His dates of birth and death are based on a life span of 60 years, the age at which Diogenes says he died, Diogenes Laërtius, ix. 3 with the floruit in the middle. (33 words)
His dates of birth and death are based on a life span of 60 years, the age at which Diogenes says he died, Diogenes Laërtius, ix. 3 with the floruit in the middle. (33 words)
Example sentences (1)
His dates of birth and death are based on a life span of 60 years, the age at which Diogenes says he died, Diogenes Laërtius, ix. 3 with the floruit in the middle.