The corpus record — Latin

recandesco

To grow white

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k

What it meant

rĕ-candesco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-candesco, dŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. (Ovidian). *

I To grow white (again): percussa recanduit unda, grew white with foam, Ov. M. 4, 529. —

II To grow hot (again), to glow: ubi tellus Solibus aetheriis ... recanduit, Ov. M. 1, 435: et rubuere genae, totoque recanduit ore (Medea), id. ib. 7, 78.—

2 Trop.: recanduit ira, Ov. M. 3, 707.

In the wild

recanduit Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.530
recanduit Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.435
recanduit Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.707
recanduit Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.211
recanduit Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.78

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.