The corpus record — Latin

gemmŭla

gemmŭla · f

A little bud

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What it meant

gemmŭla — Lewis & Short

gemmŭla, ae, f.dim.gemma.

I A little bud: gemmulae floridae, App. M. 10, p. 253.—

B Transf., the sparkling pupil of the eye: App. *)anex. 8.—

II A small gem: alii autem caelo et marculo gemmulas exsculpunt, Fronto Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 3 Mai.: carbunculi in ornamento auri. Vulg. Sap. 32, 7.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.