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frustum

crumb, fragment

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Satyricon 4 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. frustum — de Vaan

frustum 'crumb, fragment' [n. o] (PL+) Derivatives: frustulentus 'full of crumbs' (PL), frustatim 'in little pieces' (Pompon^), frustillatim 'id,' (PL+). Pit *frusto-. PIE *bhrus-to- 'broken', IE cognates: Olr. bruid 'to break, smash', Old French — [de Vaan, s.v. frustum, p. 259]

2. frustum — Lewis & Short

frustum, i, n.,

I a piece, bit (syn.: fragmentum, segmentum).

I Lit., of food (class.): frusto panis conduci potest, vel uti taceat, vel uti loquatur, Cato ap. Gell. 1, 15, 10: necesse est, offa objecta cadere frustum ex pulli ore cum pascitur, Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27: esculenta, id. Phil. 2, 25 fin. (also ap. Quint. 9, 4, 44): viscera pars in frusta secant, verubusque trementia figunt, Verg. A. 1, 212: lardi semesa frusta, Hor. S. 2, 6, 85: sunt qui frustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, id. Ep. 1, 1, 78: capreae, Juv. 11, 142: nudum et frusta rogantem, scraps, id. 3, 210: solidae frusta farinae, lumps, id. 5, 68; cf. 14, 128.—

II Transf., in gen., a piece as a small part of a whole (very rare; not in Cic.): unde soluta fere oratio, et e singulis non membris sed frustis collata, structura caret, Quint. 8, 5, 27; so (opp. membra), id. 4, 5, 25; cf.: philosophiam in partes, non in frusta dividam, Sen. Ep. 89: frusta pannorum, rags, Amm. 15, 12, 2.—Comically: frustum pueri, you bit of a boy! Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 68.

3. frustum — Walde–Hofmann

frustum (vulg. -rum, Niedermann Cl. 1, 262), = n. „Stückchen, Brocken, Bissen (seit Plaut, rom. [i] ebenso -um Apul [ilum seit Arnob., -Wlätim seit Plt.] und *frustiäre; vgl. noch -wlentus [vgl. ésculentus] Plt., -ätus Gl): nach Persson KZ. 33, 291f., Wzerw. 126°, Beitr. 783, Johansson IF. 19, 120 (Lit.) aus *bhrus-io- (vgl. erus-ta) zu Wz. *bhreus- (Erw. von *bher-, s. feriö) „zerbrechen“ in: air. brosna „kleines … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. frustum, p. 585]

In the wild

frustum Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.25.1
frustis Horace, Epistulae 1.1.78
frusta Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.128
Frusto Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.10
frusto Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.9.3
frusta Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.119

6 of 55 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. frustum (scan p. 259; entry #633). Root candidates: *frusto-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. frustum (scan p. 281; entry #4397).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. frustum (scan pp. 585-589; entry #1179). Root candidates: *bhreus-, *bher-, *brusto-.

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