The corpus record — Latin

refingo

refingo · v. a

to make again

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

rĕ-fingo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-fingo, ĕre, v. a.,

I to make again, make anew (very rare).

I Lit.: rem, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 91 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 108 Rib.): cerea regna, Verg. G. 4, 202.—

II Trop., to feign, pretend: laetiorem me refingens, App. M 3, p. 134, 24.

In the wild

refingens Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.12.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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