The corpus record — Latin

recalesco

to become warm

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕ-călesco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-călesco, lŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become warm (again), to grow warm (rare but class.): cum motu atque exercitatione recalescunt (corpora), * Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; id. Flor. 4, 2, 53; Prud. Psych. 59.—

II Trop.: mens recalescit, Ov. R. Am. 629: recalescere ex integro (in scribendo) et resumere impetum fractum omissumque, Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 6.

In the wild

recalescere Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.9.6
recalescunt Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.26
recalescere Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.269
recalesco Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.34.1
recalescere Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.59
recaluerunt Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.13.2.53

6 of 7 attestations shown.

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.