The corpus record — Latin

facula

facula · f

a little torch

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Where it lives

Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

făcŭla — Lewis & Short

făcŭla, ae, f.dim.fax,

I a little torch, a splinter used as a torch, Cato, R. R. 37, 3; Varr. L. L. 5, § 137 Müll.; Prop. 2, 29, 5 (3, 27, 5 M.); Cinc. ap. Gell. 16, 4, 2.—*

II Trop.: nequidquam tibi Fortuna faculam adlucere volt, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 46; Vulg. Apoc. 8, 10.

In the wild

facula Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.14.84
Facula Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.2.1.p2
faculam Plautus, Persa 4.3
faculas Propertius, Elegiae 2.29a.5
faculam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.4.2
faculam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.9.12

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. facula (scan p. 246; entry #3816).

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