The corpus record — Latin

faecula

faecula · f

burnt tartar

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

What it meant

faecŭla — Lewis & Short

faecŭla (also fēcŭla, and contracted faecla, ae, f.dim.id.,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1),

I burnt tartar or salt of tartar, deposited in the form of a crust by wine (used as a condiment or as a drug), Lucr. 2, 430; Hor. S. 2, 8, 9; Scrib. Comp. 226 al.

In the wild

faecula Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.8.9

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.