refoveo Latin · revision 33001

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=ine-pro *dʰogʷʰ-eie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈfɔ.we.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈfɔː.ve.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''refoveō''' (present infinitive refovēre, perfect active refōvī, supine refōtum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|foveō|t2=to keep warm, cherish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|foveō]] to [[itc-pro|*foχweje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰogʷʰ-eie-|t=to burn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short note that it is not found before Augustus;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has a letter-writer tell the addressee that their breast warmed hers again.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to warm again, and to reinvigorate or revive: Ovid has collapsed limbs revived, Pliny the Elder the smell of cucumber relieving faintness, and Columella soil revived by frequent manuring.^(OLD 2012) It is also to restore countries and institutions, as Curtius' long peace that revives everything, and practices, as the Younger Pliny's studies almost extinct and now revived.^(OLD 2012) Statius uses it of cheering up someone in doubt.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to revive, refresh, cherish.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of warming and reviving.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of reviving soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of relieving faintness.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of cheering someone up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To warm again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|revive]], [[m|en|refresh]], reinvigorate; to restore (countries, practices).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cheer up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnfoveō]]

+ * [[effoveō]]

+ * [[foveō]]

+ * [[perfoveō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}