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cauliculus

cauliculus · m

the small stalk

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

caulĭcŭlus — Lewis & Short

caulĭcŭlus or cōlĭcŭlus, i, m.dim.caulis,

I the small stalk or stem of a plant; form cauliculus, Cels. 2, 18; Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 119; Suet. Gram. 11; Scrib. Comp. 128; Veg. 2, 6, 2; form coliculus, Cato, R. R. 158, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4; 1, 42, 4; Col. 11, 2, 10; 12, 7, 1; 12, 56, 1.—

II In architecture, a stalk or stem as an ornament on the capitals of columns, Vitr. 4, 1, 12; 7, 5, 3.

Where it came from

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