The corpus record — Latin

recano

recano · v. a

To sing back

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕ-căno — Lewis & Short

rĕ-căno, ĕre, v. a. (Plinian).

I To sing back, i. e. call back by singing: ut illa (perdix) recanat revocetque (marem), Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102: Phoebus ... recanente lyrā fautor, Verg. Cul. 13.—*

II To charm back again, to undo a charm: pauci etiam credunt serpentes ipsas recanere, Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19 (perh. also id. 29, 4, 21, § 69, where Jan. reads praecanere. The form recĭno has another signif., v. recino).

In the wild

recanere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.2.p3
recanat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.33.p4
recanere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p9

Where it came from

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