The corpus record — Latin

cerula

cerula · f

a small piece of wax

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

cērŭla — Lewis & Short

cērŭla, ae, f.dim.cera,

I a small piece of wax: miniata, a kind of crayon, Cic. Att. 15. 14, 4 (with which the Romans were accustomed to strike out exceptionable passages in books): miniatula, the same, id. ib. 16, 11, 1 (al. miniata).—

II Transf., = ceriolarium, a candlestick or stand for wax tapers: ARGENTEAE, Inscr. Orell. 2032.

In the wild

cerula Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.14.4
cerulas Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.11.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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