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botulus

botulus · m

a sausage

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

1. bŏtŭlus — Lewis & Short

bŏtŭlus, i, m. (orig. like fu/skh and the Ital. budello, derived from the Lat.; Fr. boyau, an intestine; hence like the somewhat differently formed derivatives, Ital. boldone and boldonuccio; Fr. boudin; Engl. pudding),

I a sausage (very rare; acc. to Gell. 17, 7, 11, a vulgar word, used by Laber. for farcimen): botulus genus farciminis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.; Mart. 14, 72; Petr. 49 fin; Apic. 2, 5; Arn. 2, 73; Tert. Apol. 9. —

II Meton., a stomach filled with delicacies, Tert. Jejun. adv. Psych. c. 1.

2. botulus — Walde–Hofmann

botulus, -5 m. „Wurst* weit Laber.), „Darm, Eingeweide* (seit Tert, rom., ebenso -ellus , Würstchen*, rom. auch „Darm“, s. Goldberger Gl. 18, 39, Mau PW. III 796): wohl o.-u. Lehnwort (Ernout El. dial. lat. 27, 68) aus *g*ot- zu got. gipus m. „Magen, Mutterleib*, an. keidr m. „Bauch“, ags. cwid(a) ds., ahd. quiti ,vulva*, quoden „interior pars coxae* (*g*efu-) tiefstfg. mhd. kutel, nhd. Kwutteln. ,Kaldaunen*; dazu … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. botulus, p. 144]

In the wild

botulus Martial, Epigrammata 14.72.1
botulis Petronius, Satyricon 49

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. botulus (scan p. 98; entry #1321).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. botulus (scan pp. 144-145; entry #430). Root candidates: *geu-, *bot-.

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