The corpus record — Latin

figulus

figulus · m

a potter

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 3 · 5.23/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 2 · 1.58/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
Pro P. Sulla 1 · 1.07/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fĭgŭlus — Lewis & Short

fĭgŭlus, i, m.v. fingo,

I a potter, Varr. R. R. 3, 15, 2; Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 159: Col. 11, 1, 9; Inscr. Orell. 4190: SIGILLATOR ( = sigillorum fictor), a seal-maker, ib. 4191: vas figuli, Vulg. Psa. 2, 9 al.— Poet. of the builders of the brick walls of Babylon: a figulis munita urbs, Juv. 10, 171.

2. Fĭgŭlus — Lewis & Short

Fĭgŭlus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname in the gens Marcia and Nigidia. So esp. P. Nigidius Figulus, a learned contemporary of Cicero, Cic. Univ. 1; id. Fam. 4, 13; Suet. Aug. 94. — Marcius Figulus, Cic. Att. 1, 2; id. Leg. 2, 25; Sall. C. 17.

3. figulus — Walde–Hofmann

figulus, flgüra s. fingö. filicünes s. filix. filistrus s. filtrum. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. figulus, p. 528]

In the wild

figuli Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.11.9
figuli Tertullian, De Paenitentia 4
figulus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.12.p2
figuli Juvenal, Saturae 1.4.135
figulo Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.30
Figulus Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.43.13.6

6 of 52 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. figulus (scan p. 258; entry #4015).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. figulus (scan p. 528; entry #1123).

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