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gravastellus

gravastellus · m

a gray-headed fellow

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Where it lives

Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k

What it meant

grāvastellus — Lewis & Short

grāvastellus, i, m.dim.† gravaster, from † gravus, kindr. to grau=s and the Ger. grau; Engl. gray; the ground-form of ravus,

I a gray-headed fellow: quis est haec muliercula et illic gravastellus qui venit? Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 14; cf.: gravastellus senior, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll. (where it is erroneously derived from gravis; moreover, he reads s. v. Ravi coloris, p. 272, in Plautus, ravistellus).

In the wild

gravastellus Plautus, Epidicus 5.1

Where it came from

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