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vĭrectum (less correctly vĭrētum), i, n. [vireo],

  1. I. a place overgrown with grass, a green place, greensward, sod, turf: viretum, ἀνθῶν τόπος, Gloss.; mostly in plur.: virecta nemorum, Verg. A. 6, 638: amoena virecta, of Paradise, Prud. Cath. 3, 101: latissima, Apol. M. 4, p. 143, 2: patentia, id. ib. 8, p. 209 fin.; 10, p. 263, 24.
  2. II. Transf., greenness, in gen.: Scythidis (i. e. smaragdi), Mart. Cap. 1, § 67.

vĭrens, entis, Part. of vireo.
As subst.: vĭrentĭa, ĭum, n., plants, herbage, Col. 3, 8, 1; 1, 5, 8.

1. vĭrĕo, ui, ēre, v. n., to be green or verdant (syn. viridor).

  1. I. Lit.: alia semper virent, alia, hieme nudatā, verno tempore tepefacta frondescunt, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37: fronde virere novā, Verg. A. 6, 206: quo viret uva jugo, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 78: quod pubes hederā virente Gaudeat, Hor. C. 1, 25, 17: summa (montis) pinu, Ov. F. 5, 382: lucus, id. M. 14, 837: agellus, Hor. A. P. 117: stagna musco, Verg. G. 4, 18: circa ilicibus virentem Alburnum, id. ib. 3, 146: pectora felle, Ov. M. 2, 777: metalla Taygeti, of the green Spartan marble, Mart. 6, 42, 11; 9, 76, 9.
  2. II. Trop., to be fresh, vigorous, or lively; to flourish, bloom: vegetum ingenium vivido pectore vigebat, virebatque integris sensibus, Liv. 6, 22, 7; cf. Hor. C. 1, 9, 17: Chia, id. ib. 4, 13, 6: dum virent genua, id. Epod. 13, 4: aetas populi Romani viruit, Flor. 1, 22: ut novus serpens … solet squamā virere recenti, Ov. M. 9, 267: virium gloriā virente florere, Just. 4, 4, 5.

2. vĭrĕo, ōnis, m., a kind of bird; acc. to some, the greenfinch, Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 292.

vīres, ĭum, f., v. vis.

vĭresco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [1. vireo], to grow or become green or verdant.

  1. I. Lit.: rami arboribus, Lucr. 1, 252: gramina, Verg. G. 1, 55; Ov. M. 4, 394; Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 101; Sen. Thyest. 54; Ambros. in Luc. 7, 127.
  2. II. Trop., to shoot forth, be developed, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 63 (but in Lucr. 1, 674 the correct read. is vigescat; cf. id. 1, 757).
    1. B. To flourish, prosper, grow: populi Romani adulescentia, quā maxime viruit, Flor. 1, 22, 1: virescit vulnere virtus, Furius ap. Gell. 18, 11, 4, and ap. Non. p. 188, 8.

vĭrētum, v. virectum.