LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

olfacio

olfacio

to smell

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

What it meant

olfăcĭo — Lewis & Short

olfăcĭo, ēci, actum, 3 (uncontracted collat. form ŏlĕfăcĭo:

I olefacit, olefecit, olefactum, Not. Tir. p. 167), v. a. oleo-facio, to smell, scent something (class.; syn. odoror).
I Lit.: ea, quae gustemus, olfaciamus, tractemus, audiamus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 111: unguentum, Cat. 13, 13: laurus folia trita olfactaque, smelled, Plin. 23, 8, 80, § 157: gith tusum, olfactum, id. 20, 17, 71, § 183 (olefactum, Jahn).—Absol.: delphini sagacissime olfaciunt, have a very keen scent, Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137.—
B Trop., to smell, scent, surmise, detect any thing: non sex totis mensibus olfecissem, quam, etc., Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 43: nummum, Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 11: nomen poëtae, Petr. 93.—*
II To cause to smell of any thing: si ad matris mammam (agnus) non accedet, admovere oportet et olfacere labra lacte, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 16.

In the wild

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.