Candesco, candescis, candéscere. Ouid.To ware white or shining: to waxe hotte or glowing red.Aer candescit.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
candesco, ui, 3, v. inch. n. [candeo], to become of a bright, glittering white, to begin to glisten or radiate (rare; mostly poet.): ut solet aër candescere solis ab ortu, Ov. M. 6, 49; Tib. 1, 10, 43.—II.To begin to glow, to grow red hot: ferrum candescit in igni, Lucr. 1, 491; Ov. M. 2, 230; Vitr. 7, 9fin; cf. candeo fin. candētum, i, n., a Gallic word signifying a space of 100 or 150 square feet, Col. 5, 1, 6; cf. Auct. Limit. p. 292 Goes.; Isid. Orig. 15, 15, 6.