The corpus record — Latin

umefacio

to make moist

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ūmĕ-făcĭo — Lewis & Short

ūmĕ-făcĭo (less correctly hū-), no

I perf., factum, ĕre, 3, v. a. umeo-facio, to make moist, to moisten, wet (post-class.): de halitu terrae aut maris nebula exsistit, quae dispersa umefacit, quicquid texerit, Lact. de Ira Dei, 10: spongia crebro umefacta, Plin. 32. 10, 48, § 138.

In the wild

umefacto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p11

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.