The corpus record — Latin

furcilla

furcilla · f

a little fork

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

furcilla — Lewis & Short

furcilla, ae, f.dim.furca,

I a little fork: herba subsecari falcibus debet et, quoad perarescat, furcillis versari, Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; 1, 8, 6; Col. 2, 10, 13: quoniam furcillā extrudimur, Brundisium cogito, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 4; cf.: musae furcillis praecipitem eiciunt, Cat. 105, 2.—Also, †furcilles, sive †furcilla, quibus homines suspendebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 88 Müll.

In the wild

furcillae Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.7.1
furcillis Catullus, Carmina elegies.105.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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