The story
- Latin · borrowed fromflōruit“he/she/it flourished”
- English todayfloruit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
floruit
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin flōruit