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excrementum1

excrementum1 · n

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Naturalis Historia 21 · 0.53/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

1. excrēmentum — Lewis & Short

excrēmentum, i, n.excerno.

I What is sifted out, the refuse, Col. 8, 5, 25; Pall. Febr. 26, 3; id. Nov. 20, 4.—More freq.,

II What passes from the body, excrement, ordure, Plin. 11, 26, 32, § 94; 9, 45, 68, § 147: oris, spittle, Tac. H. 4, 81: narium, mucus of the nose, id. A. 16, 4.

2. excrēmentum — Lewis & Short

excrēmentum, i, n.excresco,

I an elevation, prominence: humilior inter excrementa costarum spina, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—

II Transf., of numbers which increase regularly in series: sic decem milia ceteraque excrementa, Mart. Cap. 7, § 734.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. excrementum (scan p. 174; entry #2664).

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