calefacio
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.leːˈfa.ki.oː/, [käɫ̪eːˈfäkioː] or IPA(key): /ka.leˈfa.ki.oː/, [käɫ̪ɛˈfäkioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.leˈfa.t͡ʃi.o/, [käleˈfäːt͡ʃio]
- Note: second vowel always short in Classical hexameters via iambic shortening.
Verb
calē̆faciō (present infinitive calē̆facere, perfect active calē̆fēcī, supine calē̆factum); third conjugation iō-variant, irregular passive voice
Usage notes
Superseded in urban speech by the syncopated form calfaciō by the 1st century CE.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *calfāre (see there for further descendants)
References
- “calefacio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calefacio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calefacio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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