The corpus record — Latin

fonticulus

fonticulus · m

a little spring

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fontĭcŭlus — Lewis & Short

fontĭcŭlus, i, m.dim.fons,

I a little spring or fountain (very rare), Hor. S. 1, 1, 56: exsiliente dulci fonticulo, Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 107.

In the wild

fonticulo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.10.p2
fonticulus Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.11
Fonticulus Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.6.23
fonticulo Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.1.56
fonticulus Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.23
fonticulo Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.22

Where it came from

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