1. faeceus — de Vaan
faeceus 'resembling dregs, foul' (PL), faecula 'dried lees of wine' (Lucr.+); defae/fcare "to remove the dregs' (PL+). No etymology. BibL: WH 1:444, EM 213. — [de Vaan, s.v. faeceus, p. 213]
The corpus record — Latin
faecĕus
faecĕus
resembling dregs, foul
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What it meant
2. faecĕus — Lewis & Short
faecĕus, a, um, adj.id.,
I impure, feculent; only flg.:
nil ego istos moror faeceos mores, turbidos, quibus boni dedecorant sese,Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 19.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.