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calefactio

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ka.ɫɛˈfak.ti.oː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ka.leˈfak.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

calefactiō f (genitive calefactiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin calefaciō (“to make warm”) + -tiō.[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan, citing the Digest on heating a public bath (balneī pūblicī calefactiō).[3][4]

Semantic evolution

It meant the heating of a bath, warming, heating, and in the plural the heating of hot baths.[2][3]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant heat, heating.[5] British Medieval Latin used it for heating, warming, figuratively, and in medicine.[6] English calefaction, French caléfaction and Spanish calefacción are from it.[1]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The heating (of a bath), warming.[2][3]
  2. (Medieval Latin, medicine) Heating.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  5. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  6. ^ a b Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press