The corpus record — Latin

homuncio

homuncio · m

a little man

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Where it lives

Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

hŏmuncĭo — Lewis & Short

hŏmuncĭo, ōnis, m.dim.id.,

I a little man, manikin: ego homuncio hoc non facerem? Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 42: homuncio hic, qui multa putat praeter virtutem homini cara esse (opp. deus), Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 134: (Augustus Horatium) inter alios jocos homuncionem lepidissimum appellat, Suet. Vit. Hor.; Sen. Ep. 116, 6: quadringenta tibi si quis deus aut similis dis homuncio, Juv. 5, 133.

In the wild

homuncio Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.133
homuncio Terence, Eunuchus 3.5
homunciones Petronius, Satyricon 56
homunciones Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.116.7
homuncio Petronius, Satyricon 34
homuncio Cicero, Lucullus 134

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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