The corpus record — Latin

esculentus

esculentus · adj

fit for eating

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de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
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Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
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Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

escŭlentus — Lewis & Short

escŭlentus, a, um, adj.id.,

I fit for eating, good to eat, eatable, edible, esculent; cf. poculentus: frusta, Cic. Phil. 2, 25 fin.; cf. id. N. D. 2, 49; 56 fin.; Scaev. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 17; Dig. 33, 9, 3. § 3: animalia (with innocua), Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 219: merces, Col. 11, 3, 50: ōs, i. e. filled with food. Plin. 8, 25, 37, § 90.—Comp.: a vino et esculentioribus cibis abstinere, i. e. more delicate, Hier. Ep. 22, 11.

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