The corpus record — Latin

recanto

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

rĕ-canto — Lewis & Short

rĕ-canto, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. freq. n. and a. (poet.). *

I Neutr., to sound back, re-echo: nusquam Graecula quod recantat Echo, Mart. 2, 86, 3.—

II Act.

1 To repeat in singing, sing again: saepius iste versiculus recantandus est, Ambros. Virg. 2, 6, 42.—

2 To recall, revoke, recant: recantatis opprobriis, Hor. C. 1, 16, 27. —

3 To charm back, charm away: nulla recantatas deponent pectora curas, Ov. R. Am. 259.

In the wild

recantatas Ovid, Remedia Amoris 259
recantat Martial, Epigrammata 2.86.3

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.