The corpus record — Latin

meretricula

meretricula · f

a public prostitute, courtesan

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Where it lives

Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

mĕrē^trīcŭla — Lewis & Short

mĕrē^trīcŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a public prostitute, courtesan (class.): meretricula Leontium, Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 93; Hor. S. 2, 7, 46; Quint. 11, 3, 74.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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