The corpus record — Latin

recuro

recuro · v. a

to restore by taking care of; to refresh

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rĕ-cūro — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., *

I to restore by taking care of; to refresh, invigorate, make whole, cure, = recreare; also, to take care of; to prepare with care: me otio et urticā, Cat. 44, 15: chartam, to prepare carefully, Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 75; cf.: sedulo corpora laniata, App. M. 8, p. 210, 3: plagas, id. ib. 6, p. 183, 28.

In the wild

recuravi Catullus, Carmina lyrics.44.15
recurantibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.25
recurant Statius, Thebais 3.583
recurata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.12.p1

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.