The corpus record — Latin

reformo

reformo · v. a

to shape again

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Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Tyranni Triginta 3 · 4.55/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Metamorphoses 12 · 2.25/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-formo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-formo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to shape again, remould, transform, metamorphose, change (not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: sed preme, quicquid erit, dum, quod fuit ante, reformet, i.e. until she resumes her first shape, Ov. M. 11, 254; cf. id. ib. 9, 399: rursus in facies hominum tales figuras, App. M. 3, p. 139, 26: aliquem in alienam personam, id. ib. 11 fin.: hunc (asinum) ad homines, id. ib. 11, p. 264, 24: corpus humilitatis nostrae, Vulg. Phil. 3, 21: claudorum pedes ad officium gradiendi, Lact. 4, 26, 1.—

II Trop.

1 To change, alter: divinae providentiae fatalis dispositio subverti vel reformari non potest, App. M. 9, p. 217, 27: sententias in pejus, Dig. 49, 1, 1: cum Themistocles ruinas patriae in pristinum habitum reformaret, Val. Max. 6, 5, 2 ext.—

2 Pregn., to amend, reform; of persons: (quadragenarius pupillus) non potest reformari, Sen. Ep. 25, 1: sed reformamini in novitate sensūs vestri, Vulg. Rom. 12, 2.— Of things: imitari proposita et ad illa reformare chirographum, Sen. Ep. 94, 51: mores depravatos, Plin. Pan. 53, 1; so, solutam et perditam disciplinam, Eum. Pan. Const. 2. —

3 To restore, re-establish: pacem, Eutr. 9, 20.

In the wild

reformatur Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 1
reformant Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.5
reformant Tertullian, De Scorpiace 1
reformatus Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.399
reformati Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.22
reformet Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.254

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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