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The corpus record — Latin

helluo

helluo · m

a gormandizer

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Where it lives

What it meant

hellŭo — Lewis & Short

hellŭo (hēluo), ōnis, m.,

I a gormandizer, glutton, squanderer: fraus, helluo, Ganeo! Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 10: ille gurges atque helluo, natus abdomini suo, Cic. Pis. 17, 41: impurus, id. Agr. 1, 1, 2: me ipsum ut contempsit helluo patriae! id. Sest. 11, 26.

In the wild

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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