rubefacio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

rŭbĕ-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a. [rubeo],

to make red or ruddy , to redden (poet.): sanguine setas, Ov. M. 8, 383: rubefactaque sanguine tellus, id. ib. 13, 394: cornua multo cruore, id. ib. 12, 382: ora sororum (Aurora), Sil. 16, 137.

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