The corpus record — Latin

tepesco

to become moderately warm

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tĕpesco — Lewis & Short

tĕpesco, pŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [tepeo], to become moderately warm, lukewarm, or tepid.

I To grow warm: maria agitata ventis ita tepescunt, ut, etc., * Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; Cels. 3, 6 med.; Ov. M. 3, 412: nostra tepescit aqua, id. P. 3, 4, 56: fixo ferrum in pulmone tepescit, Verg. A. 9, 701; Mart. 6, 59, 4 al.—

II To grow cool (rare).

A Lit., Mart. 2, 1, 10. —

B Trop., to cool off, decrease in ardor: paulatim fugit ira ferox mentesque tepescunt, Luc. 4, 284: negotio tepescente, Amm. 28, 1, 9: cum omnes amicitiae Romae tepescant, id. 28, 4, 21: veneres tepuere sub annis, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 13.

In the wild

tepescunt Lucan, Pharsalia 4.284
tepescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.53.p1
tepuere Statius, Thebais 11.194
tepuit Martial, Epigrammata 3.17.5
tepescat Prudentius, Cathemerina 7.19
tepescat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.14.p2

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tepésco (scan p. 709; entry #11769). Root candidates: *tep-.

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