The corpus record — Latin

nubecula

nubecula · f

a little cloud

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Naturalis Historia 13 · 0.33/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

nūbēcŭla — Lewis & Short

nūbēcŭla, ae, f.dim.nubes,

I a little cloud.

I Lit., Plin. 18, 35, 82, § 356.—

B Transf., something cloudy or dark, a dark spot: mala urina, in quā veluti furfures atque nubeculae apparent, Plin. 28, 6, 19, § 68: smaragdi variā nubeculā improbati, id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: nubeculae et caligationes suffusionesque oculorum, id. 29, 6, 38, § 123; 20, 7, 26, § 61.—

II Trop., a gloomy expression of countenance: frontis tuae nubecula, Cic. Pis. 9, 20.

In the wild

nubeculas Celsus, De Medicina 2.4
nubeculam Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 20
nubecula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.35.p6
nubeculae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p6
nubeculas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p3
nubecula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.5.p3

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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