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tepeo

to be warm

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Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Silvae 6 · 2.4/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tepeo — de Vaan

tepeo 'to be warm' [v. II] (Cato+) Derivatives: tepidus 'warm' (Enn.+), tepor 'warmth' (Varro+), tepefacere 'to make fairly hot' (Varro+). Pit. *tep-e- 'to be warm'. PIE *t(e)p-ehr 'to be warm', *tep-os- [n.] 'warmth'. IE cognates: Olr. te 'hot', tess 'heat', W. tes, Bret, tez 'id.'; Skt. tapati Ho heat, be/become hot', tapas- [n.] 'heat, glow', YAv. tqfsa- 'to become hot', tapaiia- 'to make hot, create warmth', … — [de Vaan, s.v. tepeo, p. 628]

2. tĕpĕo — Lewis & Short

tĕpĕo, ēre, v. n.Sanscr. tap, to be warm; tapas, heat; O. H. Germ. damf, warm,

I to be moderately warm, lukewarm, or tepid (very rare; not in Cic.; cf.: caleo, ferveo).

I Lit.: ubi (dolium) temperate tepebit, Cato, R. R. 69, 2: carnes gallinaceorum ut tepebant avulsae, Plin. 29, 4, 25, § 78: ubi plus tepeant hiemes, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 15: cor tepens, Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 62: tepentes aurae, Verg. G. 2, 330; Ov. M. 1, 107: sole tepente, id. ib. 3, 489: truncus tepens, Verg. A. 10, 555; cf.: tractu (caeli) tepente, Plin. 36, 25, 62, § 186.—

II Trop.

A To be warm or to glow with love, to be enamored: quo (Lycidā) calet juventus Nunc omnis et mox virgines tepebunt, Hor. C. 1, 4, 20: nescio quem sensi corde tepente deum, Ov. H. 11, 26.—

B To be lukewarm, cool, cold; to be without ardor, indifferent in love, etc.: saepe tepent alii juvenes: ego semper amavi, Ov. R. Am. 7; so (opp. amare), id. Am. 2, 2, 53: affectus tepet, * Quint. 6, 1, 44.

3. tepeö — Walde–Hofmann

tepeö, -u2, -äre „bin warm, mild“; spátl. „bin untätig“ (seit Cato, fepéscoó, -ere „werde warm“ seit Verg., tepefaciö [-fiö] „erwärme seit Verg., tepefactö ds. seit Catull), tepidus, -a, -um „warm, lau“ (seit Enn., Cato, Verg., rom., ebenso *iepidulus, tepiditäs seit Ps. Primas.); tepidö, -äre „mache warm“ (seit Catull [trep- codd.] und Plin.), tepidárius, -a, -um „warmes Wasser des Bassins betreffend“ Inschr. (-a … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tepeö, p. 1575]

In the wild

tepente Ovid, Epistulae 11.26
tepentes Tibullus, Elegiae 2.5.77
tepentem Vergil, Aeneid 10.555
tepent Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.15.12
tepentis Statius, Thebais 8.755
tepeant Statius, Silvae 4.1.24

6 of 84 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tepeo (scan p. 628; entry #1793). Root candidates: *tapah-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tepeö (scan pp. 1575-1576; entry #2963). Root candidates: *tepnet-, *te-, *tepesmo-.

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