The corpus record — Latin

herbula

herbula · f

a little herb

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

herbŭla — Lewis & Short

herbŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a little herb: cervae perpurgant se quadam herbula, quae seselis dicitur, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; Sen. Vit. Beat. 9; Quint. 1, 3, 5.

In the wild

herbulae Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.9.2
herbulas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.30
herbulas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.2
herbulas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.29
herbulae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.3.5
herbulam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.28.p2

6 of 7 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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