The corpus record — Latin

litterula

litterula · f

A little letter

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Where it lives

Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

littĕrŭla — Lewis & Short

littĕrŭla (lītĕr-), ae, f.dim.littera.

I A little letter, Cic. Att. 6, 9, 1: accepi tuam epistolam vacillantibus litterulis, id. Fam. 16, 15, 2.—

II Transf.: litterulae, ārum.

A A short letter, a note: hoc litterularum exaravi, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1.—

B Grammatical knowledge, literary learning, liberal studies: quem propter litterularum nescio quid libenter vidi, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8: litterulae meae oblanguerunt, id. Fam. 16, 10, 2; 5, 21, 2: litterulis Graecis imbutus, Hor. Ep. 2, 27.

Where it came from

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