calefactio Latin · revision 9817

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Digest|origins=la caleō, la faciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ka.ɫɛˈfak.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ka.leˈfak.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''calefactiō''' ''f'' (genitive calefactiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|calefaciō|-tiō|t1=to make warm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan, citing the Digest on heating a public bath (''balneī pūblicī calefactiō'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the heating of a bath, warming, heating, and in the plural the heating of hot baths.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant heat, heating.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for heating, warming, figuratively, and in medicine.^(DMLBS) English ''calefaction'', French ''caléfaction'' and Spanish ''calefacción'' are from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The heating (of a bath), warming.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, medicine)'' Heating.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[calefaciō]]

+ * [[en|calefaction]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}