The corpus record — Latin

Jugula

Jugula · f

the three stars which form Orion's belt

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

Jŭgŭla — Lewis & Short

Jŭgŭla, ae, and Jŭgŭlae, ārum, f.jugulus,

I the three stars which form Orion's belt; also, the whole constellation Orion, Varr. L. L. 7, § 50 Müll.: neque Jugulae neque Vesperugo neque Vergiliae occidunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 119.—

II Two stars in the constellation Cancer, otherwise called Aselli: nunc Cancro vicina canam, cui parte sinistra Consurgunt Jugulae, Manil. 5, 175.

In the wild

Iugulae Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1

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.