The corpus record — Latin

maculosus

maculosus · adj

full of spots, spotted, speckled, dappled, mottled, variegated

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 2 · 23.53/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măcŭlōsus — Lewis & Short

măcŭlōsus, a, um, adj.id.,

I full of spots, spotted, speckled, dappled, mottled, variegated.

I Lit.

A In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): maculosae tegmine lyncis, Verg. A. 1, 323: color, Col. 6, 37, 6: marmor, Plin. 36, 6, 5, § 44: luna, id. 2, 9, 6, § 46: corium, variegated, striped, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 30.—

B In partic., in a bad sense, spotted, blotted, stained, defiled: vestis Pompeii non multa, eaque maculosa, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 73: maculosae sanguine harenae, Ov. A. A. 3, 395: litora suffusas quod habet maculosa lituras, id. Tr. 3, 1, 15. —

II Trop., defiled, polluted, filthy: senatores, in bad repute, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 3: maculosas commodat aedes, Juv. 7, 40: vir omni dedecore, Tac. H. 3, 38: avaritia et libidine foedus ac maculosus, id. H. 1, 7: adulescentia, Aur. Vict. Caes. 11: nefas, unnatural, abominable, Hor. C. 4, 5, 22.— * Comp.: maculosiora quam nutricis pallium, Front. de Or. 3 Mai.

In the wild

maculosa Petronius, Satyricon 2
maculosi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.7.8
maculosa Cicero, Philippicae 2.73
maculosa Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.11
maculosa Statius, Thebais 3.457
maculoso Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.197

6 of 48 attestations shown.

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.