The corpus record — Latin

tepefacio

to make moderately warm

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tĕpĕfăcĭo — Lewis & Short

tĕpĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3 (

I fut. scanned tĕpēfăciet, Cat. 64, 361; cf. liquefacio), v. a. tepeo - facio, to make moderately warm, lukewarm, or tepid; to warm, tepefy (class.); as verb. fin. act.: is ejus (solis) tactus est, non ut tepefaciat solum, sed etiam saepe comburat, Cic. N. D. 2, 15, 40: corpus, Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19: ova, id. 10, 33, 49, § 92: linteum, Cels. 3, 6 med.: in matris jugulo ferrum acutum, Hor. S. 2, 3, 136.—Pass.: medicamentum semper ante tepefieri convenit, Cels. 6, 7: insecta tepefiunt, Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 13.— Part. perf.: umor mollitur tepefactus et tabescit, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; id. Tusc. 5, 13, 37; id. Sen. 15, 51; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 23; Lucr. 6, 322; Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 17; Verg. A. 9, 419.

In the wild

tepefactum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.22.p3
tepefactumque Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.5.8
tepefecit Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.136
tepefactus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.3.p2
tepefactum Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.900
tepefacta Silius Italicus, Punica 3.549

6 of 47 attestations shown.

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