The corpus record — Latin

ocellus

ocellus · m

a little eye

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 8.65/10k
Elegiae 18 · 7.11/10k
Amores 11 · 7.04/10k
Carmina 7 · 5.44/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ŏcellus — Lewis & Short

ŏcellus, i, m.dim.oculus,

I a little eye, eyelet (mostly poet.).

I Lit.: blanda quies furtim victis obrepsit ocellis, Ov. F. 3, 19: ut in ocellis hilaritudo est! Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 8: turgiduli, Cat. 3, 17: ebrii, id. 43, 11: irati, Ov. Am. 2, 8, 15: acre malum semper stillantis ocelli, Juv. 6, 109: si prurit frictus ocelli angulus, id. 6, 578.—As a term of endearment: ocelle mi! my little eye! my darling! Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 18: aureus, id. As. 3, 3, 101: jucundissimus meus, Aug. ap. Gell. 15, 7, 3: cave despuas, ocelle, Cat. 50, 19.—So of things, like our apple of the eye: cur ocellos Italiae, villulas meas, non vides? Cic. Att. 16, 6, 2: insularum, Cat. 31, 1.—

II Transf., a bulb or knob on the roots of the reed (called also oculus), Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 20.

In the wild

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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