calefacio

== Latin == === Alternative forms === calfaciō === Etymology === From caleō (“to warm”) + faciō (“to make”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.ɫɛˈfa.ki.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.leˈfaː.t͡ʃi.o] === Verb === calefaciō (present infinitive calefacere, perfect active calefēcī, supine calefactum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, suppletive to warm or heat to rouse or excite ==== Usage notes ==== Superseded in urban speech by the syncopated form calfaciō by the 1st century CE. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== calefactō excalfaciō incalfaciō ==== 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.