The corpus record — Latin

maculatio

maculatio · f

a spotting; a spot, stain

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

What it meant

măcŭlātĭo — Lewis & Short

măcŭlātĭo, ōnis, f.maculo,

I a spotting; a spot, stain (post-class.).

I Lit.: cutem maculationibus convariare, App. Mag. p. 306, 14.—

II Trop.: aliquā infamiae maculatione pollutus, stain, Firm. Math. 3, 15, 3.

In the wild

maculationibus Apuleius, Apologia 50

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.