The corpus record — Latin

labellum1

labellum1 · n

a little lip

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Carmina 7 · 5.44/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Asinaria 3 · 3.71/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Poenulus 3 · 2.72/10k
Saturae 6 · 2.41/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Amores 3 · 1.92/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lăbellum — Lewis & Short

lăbellum, i, n.dim.1. labrum,

I a little lip, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 67; id. As. 4, 1, 52: dentes illidunt saepe labellis, * Lucr. 4, 1080: Platoni cum in cunis parvulo dormienti apes in labellis consedissent, Cic. Div. 1, 36, 78: nec te paeniteat calamo trivisse labellum, Verg. E. 2, 34; cf.: et roseo terit ore deus mollique labello, Pub. Syr. ap. Wernsd. Poet. L. Min. 2, 388: digito compesce labellum, Juv. 1, 160: extendere, to pout, thrust out, id. 15, 325: compara labella cum labellis, i. e. kiss, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 78.—As a term of endearment: meus ocellus, meum labellum, mea salus, meum savium, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 153; so id. ib. 1, 2, 175.

2. lăbellum — Lewis & Short

lăbellum, i, n.dim.2. labrum,

I a small water-vessel, a tub, bathing-tub, Cato, R. R. 10, 2; 88: labellum fictile novum impleto paleis, Col. 12, 44, 1; 12, 28, 3.—

II Esp., a small pan or basin set on a tomb for use in libations, Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66.

In the wild

labellis Propertius, Elegiae 2.13b.13
labella Martial, Epigrammata 11.91.8
labello Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.104
labellum Juvenal, Saturae 1.1.160
labellum Plautus, Poenulus 1.2
labellis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.16

6 of 49 attestations shown.

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.