The corpus record — Latin

homullus

homullus · m

a little man

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 3 · 13.37/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

hŏmullus — Lewis & Short

hŏmullus, i, m.dim.homo,

I a little man, manikin: brevis hic est fructus homullis, Lucr. 3, 914: quid cessat hic homullus, ex argilla et luto fictus Epicurus, etc., Cic. Pis. 25, 59.

In the wild

homullis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.914
Homullus Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.9.15
Homulli Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 11
Homullus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 11
Homullus Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.19.3
homullus Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 59

6 of 8 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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