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calor1

heat

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
de Natura Deorum 40 · 11.19/10k
De Rerum Natura 36 · 7.39/10k
De Medicina 62 · 6.05/10k
De Architectura 32 · 5.55/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
De Ira 9 · 4.04/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k

Densest 12 of 95 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. calor — de Vaan

calor 'heat' [m.] (P1.+); cal(e)facere 'to make hot' (P1.+), calefactare 4to heat' (P1.+). Pit *kale-. PIE *£lhi-ehr Ho be hot'. IE cognates: W. cfyd* Lith. siltas, Latv. silts 'warm' < *klto-. Lat. ca/eo represents a stative verb *klH-ehr 4to be hot'; calidus may be directly from *klH-i-c?o- (cf. Nussbaum 1999a). BibL: WH I: 137, EM 86, IEW 55If, Schrijver 1991: 206f, LIV *kek — [de Vaan, s.v. calor, p. 97]

2. călor — Lewis & Short

călor, ōris, m.caleo; cf. Varr. ap. Non. p. 46, 22,

I warmth, heat, glow.

I Lit.

A In gen. (very freq. in prose and poet.): neque mihi ulla obsistet amnis nec calor; nec frigus metuo, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 19; so (opp. frigus) Lucr. 2, 517; 6, 371; Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101; Verg. G. 2, 344; 4, 36; (opp. refrigeratio) Vitr. 1, 4: calor ignis, Lucr. 1, 425: solis, id. 5, 571; 6, 514: fulminis, id. 6, 234.—In plur., Cic. Off. 2, 4, 13; id. N. D. 2, 60, 151; Hor. C. 3, 24, 37 al.—

B Esp.

1 Vital heat; so, vitalis, Lucr. 3, 129; Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27: ut omnia quae aluntur atque crescunt, contineant in se vim caloris, sine quā neque ali possent neque crescere, id. ib. 2, 9, 23: omnis et una Dilapsus calor, Verg. A. 4, 705.—

2 Summer heat, the warmth of summer: vitandi caloris causā Lanuvii tres horas acquieveram, Cic. Att. 13, 34 init.; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—Hence also for summer (opp. ver and autumnus), Lucr. 1, 175; Col. 11, 2, 48: mediis caloribus, in the midst of summer, Liv. 2, 5, 3; so plur.: ut tectis saepti frigora caloresque pellamus, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 152.—

3 The glow of a hot wind (cf. Lucr. 6, 323: vis venti commixta calore): dum ficus prima calorque, etc., the burning heat of the parching Sirocco, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5: calores austrini, Verg. G. 2, 270 (cf.: calidi Austri, Ov. M. 7, 532).—

4 The heat of a fever, Tib. 4, 11, 2.—

II Trop.

A In gen., the heat of passion, fire, zeal, ardor, impetuosity, vehemence (so perh. not before the Aug. per.; esp. freq. in Quint.; cf.: ardor, fervor): si calor ac spiritus tulit, Quint. 10, 7, 13: Polus juvenili calore inconsideratior, id. 2, 15, 28: calor cogitationis, qui scribendi morā refrixit, id. 10, 3, 6; cf. id. 9, 4, 113: calorem cogitationis exstinguere, id. 8, praef. § 27: et impetus, id. 10, 3, 17: dicendi, id. 11, 3, 130: lenis caloris alieni derisus, id. 6, 2, 15: dicentis, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 11; 2, 19, 2: pietatis, id. Pan. 3, 1: ambitionis calor abducit a tutis, Sen. Ben. 2, 14, 5: quod calore aliquo gerendum est, id. Ira, 3, 3, 5: cohortationis, Val. Max. 2, 6, 2: iracundiae, Dig. 50, 17, 48: Martius, Stat. Achill. 2, 26; Luc. 2, 324 et saep.—

B Esp., ardent love, the fire of love: trahere calorem, Ov. M. 11, 305; so id. H. 19, 173; Sil. 14, 223.—In plur. (cf. amores), Hor. C. 4, 9, 11; Ov. A. A. 1, 237.

3. Călŏr — Lewis & Short

Călŏr, ōris, m.,

I a river in Samnium, now the Calore, Liv. 2, 14, 2; 25, 17, 1.

In the wild

calores Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.2.10
calore Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.146
calor Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.34
calores Vergil, Georgicon 2.270
caloris Tertullian, De Anima 43
calor Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.371

6 of 481 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. calor (scan p. 97; entry #183). Root candidates: *kale-, *klto-.

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