reficio

From re- (“back; again”) +‎ faciō (“to do, make”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈfɪ.ki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈfiː.t͡ʃi.o]

reficiō (present infinitive reficere, perfect active refēcī, supine refectum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

1. to make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct

   Synonyms: iterō, integrō, redintegrō, renovō, novō, reparō, referō

2. to restore, repair, fix, refit

   Synonyms: ēmendō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

3. to reappoint, re-elect
4. (of troops) to recruit, reinforce
5. (of income) to get back, get in return, make again
6. (of the body or mind) to make strong again, reinvigorate, refresh, revive, recruit, restore

   Synonyms: reparō, exhilarō, revocō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.711:

     Postera cum tenerās aurōra refēcerit herbās

     When the following dawn shall have refreshed the tender plants
     Or, the future perfect tense is often translated as a more natural-sounding English present or perfect tense:
     When the following dawn has refreshed the tender plants

7. to obtain, earn, get, amass, collect

   Synonyms: contrahō, conferō, convehō, cōnstruō, compellō, glomerō, congerō, cōgō

• refectiō
• refector
• refectus

• French: refaire
• Galician: refacer
• Italian: rifare
• Portuguese: refazer
• Spanish: rehacer

• “reficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reficio in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “reficio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to recruit oneself, seek relaxation: animum relaxare, reficere, recreare or simply se reficere, se recreare, refici, recreari (ex aliqua re)
    
  • to repair a boat: navem reficere
    
• Bruno Meinecke, Ph.D. (1960) Third Year Latin. (Allyn and Bacon, Inc.)