The corpus record — Latin

papilla

papilla · f

a nipple

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Elegiae 4 · 1.58/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

păpilla — Lewis & Short

păpilla, ae, f.dim.papula,

I a nipple, teat, on the breast of human beings and of animals: papillae capitula mammarum dictae, quod papularum sint similes, Fest. p. 220 Müll.; Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 10; Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 181: delphinum, id. 11, 40, 95, § 235: uberis, Col. 9, 11, 4; Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—

II Transf.

A Poet., the breast: nudantes rejectā veste papillas, Cat. 66, 81: hasta sub exsertam donec perlata papillam Haesit, Verg. A. 11, 803: tunc nuda papillis constitit auratis, her breasts adorned with gold chains, Juv. 6, 122.—Of the male breast: infra laevam papillam, Suet. Oth. 11; cf. Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 22; Ov. Am. 1, 4, 37.—

B A pustule, pimple, Ser. Samm. 64, 1100; 10, 133.—

C A rose-bud, Auct. Pervig. Ven. 14; 21.

In the wild

papillas Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 96.1
papillas Catullus, Carmina elegies.66.81
papillam Plautus, Asinaria 1.3
papillae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.374
papilla Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 26
papilla Propertius, Elegiae 4.4.54

6 of 50 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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