mātercŭla — Lewis & Short
mātercŭla, ae, f.dim.mater,
I a little mother (class.): tune igitur mea matercula? Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 601 P.: materculae suae festivus filius, * Cic. Fl. 36, 91; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7.
The corpus record — Latin
matercula
matercula · f
a little mother
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Where it lives
- Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
- Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
- Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- matercula Horace, Epistulae 1.7.7
- materculae Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 91
- matercula Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. matercula (scan pp. 413-414; entry #6617).
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