The corpus record — Latin

bacĕŏlus

prob. from ba/khlos o( a)no/htos, Hesych., acc. to Suet. Aug. 87

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

1. bacĕŏlus

bacĕŏlus, used by Augustus for stultusprob. from ba/khlos o( a)no/htos, Hesych., acc. to

Suet. Aug. 87.

2. baceolus

baceolus, -; m. ,Dummkopf* (Aug. bei Suet., rom.): aus gr. ßdknAos „Verschnittener, Weichling, Tor* (s. E. Maaß, RhM. 74, nA Kretschmer Gl. 16, 192; zum Suffixtausch vgl. Niedermann Arch. Rom. 5, 445). . — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. baceolus, p. 123]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.