The corpus record — Latin

legulus

a picker

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

What it meant

1. legulus — de Vaan

legulus 'a picker' (Cato+); dentilegus 'who collects teeth' (PL), sacrilegus 'who robs sacred property, sacrilegious person' (PL+), sortilegus 'soothsayer' (Varro+); — [de Vaan, s.v. legulus, p. 346]

2. lĕgŭlus — Lewis & Short

lĕgŭlus, i, m.2. lego,

I a gatherer, collector; esp. one who picked up the fallen olives (opp. strictor, he who beat or shook them from the tree; ante- and post-class.): ab legendo leguli, qui oleam aut qui uvas legunt, Varr. L. L. 6, § 66 Müll.; cf. id. ib. 5, § 94: legulos quot opus erunt, praebeto et strictores, Cato, R. R. 144: leguli volunt ut olea caduca quam plurima sit, quo plus legatur, id. ib. 64; Calp. Ecl. 3, 49.

In the wild

legulos Cato, De agri cultura 144

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. legulus (scan p. 346; entry #886).

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