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mamilla

mamilla · f

a breast, pap, nipple, teat

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Where it lives

Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

mămilla — Lewis & Short

mămilla (incorrectly mamm-; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. vol. 2, p. 36), ae, f.dim.mamma,

I a breast, pap, nipple, teat.

I Lit., Vell. 2, 70, 5; Juv. 6, 400: laeva in parte mamillae Nil salit juveni, id. 7, 159: scrofa triginta clara mamillis, id. 12, 74; 13, 163.—As a term of endearment, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 47.—

II Transf., a little pipe joined to a larger one, Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 2.

In the wild

mamillis Juvenal, Saturae 4.12.74
mamillam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p7
mamillae Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.159
mamillam Tertullian, De Carne Christi 20
mamillis Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.491
mamillis Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.401

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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