decoctus/decocta/decoctum, AO Adjective

Translations

  1. over-ripe (fruit)
  2. luscious (literary/rhetoric style)
  3. mature/ripe (good sense)

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Sg. Masculine Feminine Neuter
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Pl. Masculine Feminine Neuter
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L. Annaeus Seneca

Excidit porro vobis eundem Democritum invenisse quemadmodum ebur molliretur, quemadmodum decoctus calculus in zmaragdum converteretur, qua hodieque coctura inventi lapides hoc utiles colorantur.

~ Seneca, Epistulae Morales, Liber XIV & XV

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