floruit

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• fl., flor. (abbreviation)

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

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

floruit

1. (defective, rare except abbreviated) lived, used in biographies to indicate a date or period during which a person is known to have been alive, when dates of birth and/or death are not known.
   • 1895, Arthur Cayley Headlam, The Church Quarterly Review, page 155:

     Marius Mercator must have shared the vigour of Alcimus, for he floruit in 218 according to Mr. Miller , while he at any rate existed in 418.

   • 1993 November 15, Joseph Cary, A Ghost in Trieste, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 230:

     J. Joyce (floruit 1850)
     In 1926 Svevo wrote a letter to James Joyce in Paris inquiring if he were related to the J. Joyce who in 1850 had had printed and published by Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste a book[...]

   • 2003, Banāsā, Banasa: A Spiritual Autobiography, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 86:

     Mīrā (Bai). Floruit 16th century. Rajasthan's most famous female saint and poetess of Kṛṣṇa bhakti.

Almost always used abbreviated as fl.

The term is borrowed from Latin and no other conjugation is used in English.

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.

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