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lanificium

lanificium · n

the working of wool

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Where it lives

De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

lānĭfĭcĭum — Lewis & Short

lānĭfĭcĭum, ii, n.lanificus,

I the working of wool, i. e. spinning, weaving, etc. (ante-class. and post-Aug.): de lanificio neminem metuo, una aetate quae sit, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 22: lanificii curam suscipere, Col. 12 praef. § 9: usum lanificii docere, Just. 2, 6, 5; 2, 4, 8: filiam et neptes lanificio assuefacere, Suet. Aug. 64.

In the wild

lanificio Suetonius, Divus Augustus 64.2
lanificio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.17.p2
lanificio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p9
lanificio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.p3
lanificio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.5
lanificio Plautus, Mercator 3.1

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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