calefacere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →calefacio, calefacere, calefeci, calefactus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
make warm/hot (exert/ferment); heat; excite/rouse; vex/trouble; pursue eagerly;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...viris, album urinam, medium pepsin? novum refrigerare, vetus calefacere, medium esse prandium caninum?" XV. Quid significet "prandium caninum..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...producta secunda syllaba salutarit ("avere" est enim), et "calefacere" dixerit potius quam quod dicimus et "conservavisse", his adiciat..."
