The corpus record — Latin

recalfacio

recalfacio · v. a

to make warm

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Where it lives

Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

rĕ-calfacĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-calfacĭo (rĕcălĕfacĭo), fēci, 3, v. a.,

I to make warm (again), to warm (poet. and in post-class. prose): calidumque priori Caede recalfecit consorti sanguine telum, Ov. M. 8, 443; id. F. 4, 698; id. A. A. 2, 214.—Pass.: rursus recalfiunt, Scrib. Comp. 271; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 10, 63.—Full form: statim recalefacto corpore, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 10.—

II Trop.: tepidam recalface mentem, Ov. A. A. 2, 445.

In the wild

recalfecit Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.444
recalface Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.445

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.