The corpus record — Latin

offula

offula · f

a little bit

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Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k

What it meant

offŭla — Lewis & Short

offŭla (sync. offla), ae, f.dim.offa,

I a little bit, a small piece (peculiar to the vulg. lang.; cf. Suet. Claud. 40): offula dicta, ut offa minima e suere, Varr. L. L. 5, § 110 Müll.: offulam cum duabus costis, id. R. R. 2, 4, 11: carnis, spisse componuntur, Col. 12, 53, 4: polentae caseatae, App. M. 1, p. 103, 34: panis, Veg. Vet. 4, 18; cf. Fall. 1, 29, 4.—Prov.: quis potest sine offulā vivere? Claud. ap. Suet. Cland. 40.—Transf., as a term of abuse applied to a bad slave: quid faciat crucis offla, corvorum cibaria? this gallows-bird, Petr. 58.

In the wild

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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