The corpus record — Latin

lenticula

lenticula · f

a lentil

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Where it lives

De Medicina 44 · 4.29/10k
De Re Coquinaria 5 · 3.19/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

lentĭcŭla — Lewis & Short

lentĭcŭla, ae, f.dim.2. lens,

I a lentil.

I Lit.: faba vel lenticula, Cels. 2, 18: hoc mense lenticulam seres, Pall. 3, 4.—

II Transf.

A The shape of a lentil, lentilshape, Plin. 37, 12, 75, § 196.—

B A vessel shaped like a lentil: vasa fictilia (quas a similitudine lenticulas vocant), Cels. 2, 17, § 25; cf. Isid. Orig. 20, 7, 4; Vulg. 1 Reg. 10, 1.—

C A freckly eruption, freckles, Plin. 26, 1, 5, § 7: lenticulam tollunt galbanum et nitrum, Cels. 6, 5; cf. lentigo.

In the wild

lenticula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.20.p3
lenticulas Celsus, De Medicina 2.17
lenticulae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p5
Lenticulam Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 5.191
lenticula Celsus, De Medicina 6.5
lenticula Celsus, De Medicina 2.30

6 of 71 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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