1. bacciballum — Lewis & Short
bacciballum (basioballum), i, n., a word of uncertain meaning, found only in
Petr. 61.The corpus record — Latin
bacciballum
bacciballum · n
(), , , a word of uncertain meaning, found only in Petr. 61
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Where it lives
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
What it meant
2. bacciballum — Walde–Hofmann
bacciballum (Akk.) „molliges Frauenzimmer* (Petron 61, 6): wie nhd. „dicke Nudel“, „Faß“ u. dgl. wohl von der äußeren Form; vl. bac(c)a (Hammarstróm Eran. 23, 109) + -BaAkoc, vgl. gr. ápó-8aAAoc m. „unten breites, oben enges Gefäß“, „Zugbeutel* (Sitd ALL. 2, 610, Fraenkel Gl. 4, 35), BaAMov „männliches Glied*, Bdußakov *ai- $otov^ u. dgl. (s. unter babit, ballaena). [baceina „Bilsenkraut“ (Ps. Apul. herb. 22): … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bacciballum, p. 123]
In the wild
- bacciballum Petronius, Satyricon 61
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bacciballum (scan pp. 87-88; entry #1128).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bacciballum (scan p. 123; entry #338). Root candidates: *ai-.
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