lābēcŭla — Lewis & Short
lābēcŭla, ae, f.dim.2. labes,
I a slight stain or disgrace, a blemish; opprobrium:
alicui aspergere labeculam,Cic. Vatin. 17, 41.
The corpus record — Latin
labecula
labecula · f
a slight stain
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
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.
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.