The corpus record — Latin

lacertulus

lacertulus · m

a little arm

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

lăcertŭlus — Lewis & Short

lăcertŭlus, i, m.dim.lacertus,

I a little arm; only transf., a small cake (from its shape), App. M. 10, p. 245, 2.

In the wild

lacertulos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.13

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.