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floccus

floccus

drooping, floopy

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. floccus — de Vaan

floccus 'drooping, floopy', which are semantically quite close. Flaces may have -/from flocces. The Gm., BSl. and Latin words for 'dregs' clearly belong together, but their vowels do not match, and point to a non-IE *a. The velars do not match either, but Latin voiceless *k may have arisen in the nom.sg, *praks and thence spread through the paradigm. It appears that we are dealing with a loanword from an unknown, … — [de Vaan, s.v. floccus, p. 252]

2. floccus — Lewis & Short

floccus, i, m.,

I a lock or flock (of wool, on clothes, in fruits, etc.).
I Lit.: ne qui flocci intereant, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 8: pomis substrati flocci, id. ib. 1, 59, 3: in veste floccos legere fimbriasve diducere, Cels. 2, 6: pilulae intus habentes floccos molles, Plin. 16, 7, 10, § 28.—
II Transf., something trifling, insignificant, of no account (most freq., esp. with negatives, and in the phrase flocci facere, to make no account of, to care not a straw for; v. the foll.).
(a) With a neg.: ceterum qui sis, qui non sis, floccum non interduim, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 152 (Ritschl, ciccum; cf.: eluas tu an exungare, ciccum non interduim, id. Rud. 2, 7, 22): neque ego illum maneo, neque flocci facio, id. Men. 2, 3, 69: is leno flocci non fecit fidem, id. Rud. prol. 47: ego, quae tu loquere, flocci non facio, id. ib. 3, 5, 3: prorsus aveo scire, nec tamen flocci facio, Cic. Att. 13, 50, 3: totam rem publicam flocci non facere, id. ib. 4, 15, 4: quare, ut opinor, filosofhte/on, id quod tu facis, et istos consulatus non flocci facteon, id. ib. 1, 16, 13 Orell. N. cr. (but here Ernesti reads e)ate/on): satin abiit, neque quod dixi flocci existimat! Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 73: invidere omnes mihi, Mordere clanculum; ego non flocci pendere, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 21.—
(b) Without a neg. (ante-class.), to account of slight value, of small importance: rumorem, famam flocci fecit, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. obstinato, p. 193, 11 Müll.: tu istos minutos cave deos flocci feceris, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 24: flocci facere, id. Most. 3, 2, 121; id. Men. 5, 7, 5; id. Ep. 3, 2, 12; id. Trin. 4, 2, 150; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 11.— In pass.: flocci fiet. Culi cultor, Titin. ap. Non. 131, 33: rogata fuerit nec ne, flocci aestimo, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. muneralis, p. 143 Müll.: flocci pendo, quid rerum geras, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fulg. Exp. Serm. p. 565, 5.

3. floccus — Walde–Hofmann

floccus, -i m. „Wollbüschel“ (gr. xvdpakov, xpoküc „die beim Tuchbereiten abfallende Wolle ); das Flockige an Pflanzen, im Urin“; spätl. (Schol. Prud.) au „Haarbüschel seit Plaut., rom., ebenso -ulus „Flöckchen“ seit Tert, -0sus ,flockig" Soran.; aus floceus entl. ahd. floccho usw. [mit. floccus auch „Mönchskutte“, vgl. d. Flaus , Wollbüschel" und „wollener Rock“): wohl nach Petersson 518 floccus — flos. Gl. 4, 296 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. floccus, p. 549]

In the wild

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. floccus (scan p. 252; entry #616). Root candidates: *dhregh-, *dhreh2gh-, *dhragh-.
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. floccus (scan pp. 549-551; entry #1142). Root candidates: *blahjon-, *mI-, *flöris-.

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