The corpus record — Latin

tumefacio

tumefacio · v. a

to cause to swell

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

tŭmĕ-făcĭo — Lewis & Short

tŭmĕ-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a.tumeo,

I to cause to swell, to tumefy (poet.).

I Lit.: vis fera ventorum ... Extentam tumefecit humum, Ov. M. 15, 303: tumefactus pontus, id. ib. 11, 518.—

II Trop., to swell or puff up, to inflate with pride, etc.: num me laetitiā tumefactum fallis inani? Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 3: ut nostris tumefacta superbiat Umbria libris, id. 4 (5), 1, 63: dum nimium vano tumefactus nomine gaudes, Mart. 4, 11, 1.

In the wild

tumefactum Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.518
tumefactaque Statius, Thebais 11.313
tumefactus Silius Italicus, Punica 8.232
tumefactum Silius Italicus, Punica 7.14
tumefactus Statius, Thebais 10.128
tumefactum Silius Italicus, Punica 1.197

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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