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The corpus record — Latin

caruncula

caruncula · f

a little piece of flesh

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Where it lives

What it meant

căruncŭla — Lewis & Short

căruncŭla, ae, f.dim.2. caro,

I a little piece of flesh, * Cic. Div. 2, 24, 52; Cels. 2, 7; 8, 4; Val. Max. 3, 7, ext. 6.

In the wild

6 of 14 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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