The corpus record — Latin

cacozelia

cacozelia · f

a bad

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

căcŏzēlĭa, ae, f., = kakozhli/a,

I a bad, faulty, awkward imitation, Sen. Contr. 4, 24 fin.; id. Suas. 7; Quint. 2, 3, 9 (written as Greek, id. 8, 6, 73; cf. kako/zhlon; id. 8, 3, 56); cf. Diom. p. 446 P.

In the wild

cacozeliae Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 7.11
cacozeliae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.3.9
cacozeliae Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.1.15
cacozeliae Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.28

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.