The corpus record — Latin

faeculentus

faeculentus · adj

abounding in dregs

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Where it lives

De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

faecŭlentus — Lewis & Short

faecŭlentus, a, um, adj.faex,

I abounding in dregs or sediment, thick, impure, feculent (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: vinum, Col. 2, 2, 20: pus, Cels. 5, 26, 19: sardonyches, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 89.—Comp.: superficies, Sol. 33.—Sup.: quorum aliud faeculentissimum redditur terrae, i. e. excrement, Aug. de Vera Relig. 40.—*

II Trop.: hilaritas, Arn. 3, 119.

In the wild

faeculentum Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p22
faeculentum Celsus, De Medicina 7.3
faeculenti Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.2.20
faeculentae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.6.p4

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.