The corpus record — Latin

bacillum

bacillum · n

a small staff

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Where it lives

De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

băcillum — Lewis & Short

băcillum, i, n. (băcillus, i, m., dim.baculus,

Isid. Orig. 20, 13, 1)

I a small staff, a wand, Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 33; id. Div. 1, 17, 30 dub.; Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 2; Juv. 3, 28.—

II Esp., the wand or staff of the lictor: anteibant lictores, non cum bacillis, sed cum fascibus, Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93.

In the wild

bacillum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.104
bacillis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 11.6.2
bacillis Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.93
bacillum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.4
bacillum Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.33
bacillum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.24

6 of 8 attestations shown.

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.