labda — Lewis & Short
labda, n.indecl., = la/mbda,
I the Greek letter *l; supinum, i. e. an inverted V, Mart. Cap. 9, § 943.
2 † labda, ae, m., = la/bda, a voluptuary, i. q. irrumator (ante- and post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. 70, 11; Aus. Epigr. 126.
The corpus record — Latin
labda1
labda1 · n
the Greek letter
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Where it lives
- Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
What it meant
In the wild
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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