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majusculus

somewhat greater

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

mājuscŭlus — Lewis & Short

mājuscŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [major], somewhat greater or larger; somewhat great (rare but class.): folia sunt majuscula, quam hederae, Plin. 26, 6, 16, § 30: cura, Cic. Fam. 9, 10, 3.—Of age, somewhat older: hanc vicinam dico lenonis hujus meretricem majusculam, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 27: Thaïs, quam ego sum, majuscula est, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 20.

In the wild

maiuscula Terence, Eunuchus 3.3
maiuscula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.21.p2
maiusculam Plautus, Poenulus 1.1
maiuscula Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.10.3
maiuscula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.6.p2
maiuscula Ausonius, Technopaegnion 1

Where it came from

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