The corpus record — Latin

cacula

cacula · m

a servant

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Where it lives

Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. căcŭla — Lewis & Short

căcŭla (cacula, ae, m.Sanscr. cak-, to help; cf. calon; v. Paul. ex Fest. s. h. v. p. 45 Müll.; Fest. s. v. procalare, p. 225 ib.,

Plaut. Ps. Arg. 2, 13 sq.),

I a servant, esp. the servant of a soldier: cacula = servus militis (militaris? cf. the passage foll., from Plaut.), Fest. p. 35: cacula dou=los stratiw/tou, Gloss.: video caculam militarem me futurum, Plaut. Trin. 3. 2, 98; so id. Ps. Arg. 4; and perh., acc. to the MSS., also Juv. 9, 61, where Jahn reads casulis; cf. Weber, Juv. Excurs. in h. l.

2. cacula — Walde–Hofmann

cacula (-à- Argum. Pit. Ps. 2, 14 nach calo), -ae m. (seit Plaut.) und caeus, -; m. (Inschr.) ,Soldaten- oder Offiziersaufwärter im Felde“ (s. Paul. Fest, 45. 225; davon caculätum [-ätus, -us] ,servitium* Paul. Fest. 46, caculäri ,servire* Cl): wrsch. entlehnt aus etr. *cace, *cacla, vgl. die etr. EN. Caci)us, Cac(c)a, Cacelius, Caeilius (Herbig Gl. 15, 225, Nehring Gl. 17, 120; vgl. bes. CIL. XI 1039 Hilarius … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cacula, p. 159]

In the wild

caculam Plautus, Trinummus 3.2
caculae Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.21.4

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cacula (scan p. 105; entry #1435).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cacula (scan p. 159; entry #481).

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