The corpus record — Latin

nacca

nacca · m

a fuller

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

nacca — Lewis & Short

nacca (nacta, natta), ae, m., = na/kths (pure Lat. fullo),

I a fuller: naccae appellantur vulgo fullones, ut ait Curiatius, quod nauci non sint, i. e. nullius pretii. Idem sentit et Cincius. Quidam aiunt, quod omnia fere opera ex lanā nacae dicantur a Graecis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 166 Müll.; App. M. 9, p. 227, 22.

In the wild

naccam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.22

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nacca (scan p. 452; entry #7252).

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