The corpus record — Latin

jentaculum

jentaculum · n

a breakfast

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

jentācŭlum — Lewis & Short

jentācŭlum, i, n.jento,

I a breakfast, taken immediately after rising, by children, valetudinarians, etc. (whereas the prandium was not taken till towards noon): epulas interdum quadrifariam dispertiebat: in jentacula et prandia et cenas comissationesque, Suet. Vit. 13; Mart. 14, 233: me inferre Veneri vovi jam jentaculum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 72.

In the wild

ientacula Martial, Epigrammata 14.223.1
ientacula Martial, Epigrammata 13.31.1
ientaculo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.15

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.