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capillamentum

capillamentum · n

The hair

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

căpillāmentum — Lewis & Short

căpillāmentum, i, n.id..

I The hair, collect., Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38; esp. false hair, a peruke, Suet. Calig. 11; Petr. 110, 5, Tert. Cult. Fem. 7.—

II Transf.

A The hairy threads or fibres of the roots or leaves of plants, etc.: capillamenta vitis, Sen. Ep. 86, 20: seminum, Col. 4, 11, 1; 4, 22, 4: radicum, Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 99; 27, 12, 80, § 105.—

B Hair-like streaks on precious stones: rimae simile, Plin. 37, 2, 10, § 28; 37, 5, 18, § 68.

In the wild

capillamenti Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.6.p4
capillamenta Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.86.20
capillamenta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.15.p2
capillamento Petronius, Satyricon 110
capillamenta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.13.p1
capillamento Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.22.4

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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