The corpus record — Latin

recompono

to put together again

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Where it lives

Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

rĕ-compōno — Lewis & Short

rĕ-compōno, no

I perf., pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a.

I Lit., to put together again, to reunite, rearrange, readjust (rare): comas, Ov. Am. 1, 7, 68: lapillos, Dig. 34, 2, 25 fin.: fracturam, Veg. Vet. 3, 47, 3.—

II Transf., to soothe again, recall to composure, Plin. Ep. 6, 5, 5.

In the wild

recompositas Ovid, Amores 1.7.68
recomponerent Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.5.5

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.