The corpus record — Latin

naevŭlus

naevŭlus · m

a little mole

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What it meant

naevŭlus — Lewis & Short

naevŭlus, i, m.dim.naevus,

I a little mole on the body, a wart (post-Aug.), Gell. 12, 1, 7: minores aliae insulae, ut naevuli quidam, per apertas Ponti sunt sparsae regiones, App. de Mundo, p. 59, 27; cf. Fronto Ep. 1, 2 med. Mai.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.