The corpus record — Latin

modulamen

modulamen · n

melody, euphony

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Where it lives

Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

mŏdŭlāmen — Lewis & Short

mŏdŭlāmen, ĭnis, n.id.,

I melody, euphony (post-class.): (Cicero) in secundā (in Verrem, i. e. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191) simili usūs modulamine, manifesto peccatu inquit, non peccato, Gell. 13, 21 (20), 16: caeli ac siderum, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 12; Sid. Carm. 1, 9.

In the wild

modulamine Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.21.16
modulamine Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.844
modulamine Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 1.9
modulamine Ausonius, Parentalia 17.2
modulamine Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.288

Where it came from

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

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