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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la fricō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɛ.frɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.fri.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''refricō''' (present infinitive refricāre, perfect active refricuī, supine refricātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|fricō|t2=to rub, chafe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|fricō]] from Plautus on among the derivatives of [[m|la|friō|t=to crumble]]; he thinks the verb presupposes an adjective [[m|itc-pro|*fri-ko-]], built on [[m|itc-pro|*frio-]], from [[ine-pro|*bʰriH-o-|t=cut]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first use is in Cato's ''De agri cultura'', in instructions that end ''refricato denuo'', “rub it again”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it a favourite word of Cicero, rare elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of tearing open a wound again, in figurative phrases such as reopening a scar of the state that had already closed,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) of reviving someone's grief or longing by speech or letter,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) of renewing the memory of a deed,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and intransitively of an eye inflammation that keeps flaring up, ''crebro refricat lippitudo''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) A Pompeian wall inscription uses it reflexively of sores becoming raw again.^(OLD 2012) Ovid writes of love renewed by a reminder,^(OLD 2012) Apuleius of renewed lamentations,^(OLD 2012) and Fronto of going over the same thought again and again.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The TLL records it in Caelius Aurelianus of a grief that brings back an illness.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of rubbing a mass again.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of reopening wounds and reviving grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–AD 18 – Ovid uses it of love revived.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto uses it of repeating the same thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|rub]] again; to work over again.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To make a [[m|en|wound]] sore again, tear it open;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(reflexive or intransitive, of sores and inflammations)'' to become raw again, flare up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To [[m|en|revive]] grief, longing or a memory; to stir up the mind again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[affricō]]

+ * [[circumfricō]]

+ * [[cōnfricō]]

+ * [[dēfricō]]

+ * [[fricō]]

+ * [[īnfricō]]

+ * [[perfricō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}