The corpus record — Latin

bestiola

bestiola · f

a small animal

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

bestĭŏla — Lewis & Short

bestĭŏla, ae, f.dim.bestia,

I a small animal, a little beast, Cic. N.D. 2, 48, 123; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 94; Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 2; Sen. Ep. 70, 17; Plin. 11, 6, 7, § 17; 18, 17, 44, § 156; 22, 25, 81, § 163; Veg. R. R. 3, 15, 10 al.

In the wild

bestiolas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.14.p2
bestiolas Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.6.4
bestiolae Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.94
bestiola Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.17.p7
bestiolas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.94
bestiolae Ausonius, Epistularum 2.p1

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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