The corpus record — Latin

offucia

offucia · f

a paint

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Where it lives

Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k

What it meant

offūcĭa — Lewis & Short

offūcĭa, ae, f.ob-fucus,

I a paint, wash for the face (ante- and post-class.).

I Lit.: pigmentum ullum, neque cerussam Melinumve neque aliam ullam offuciam, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 107.—

II Trop., a trick, delusion, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 123: id praestigiarum atque offuciarum genus, delusions, Gell. 14, 1, 2.

In the wild

offuciis Plautus, Captivi 3.4
offuciam Plautus, Mostellaria 1.3

Where it came from

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

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