The corpus record — Latin

rarefacio

rarefacio · v. a

to make thin

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k

What it meant

rārē-făcĭo — Lewis & Short

rārē-făcĭo (written also separately rārē făcĭo), fēci, factum, 3, v. a.rarus,

I to make thin or rare, to rarefy (Lucret.): rarefieri, Lucr. 1, 648: rarefacta, id. 2, 1139; 3, 442: rareque facit, id. 6, 233; 870.

In the wild

rarefactum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.442
rarefacta Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1139

Where it came from

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

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.