The corpus record — Latin

papula

papula · f

a pustule

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

păpŭla — Lewis & Short

păpŭla, ae, f.dim.root pamp-, pap, to swell; in Gr. pomfo/s; cf. 2. populus,

I a pustule, pimple, Cels. 5, 28, 18: ardentes, Verg. G. 3, 564: eruptiones papularum, Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 67: rubentes papulas sanare, id. 26, 11, 73, § 120; Vulg. Lev. 14, 56.—Prov.: papulas observatis alienas obsiti plurimis ulceribus, i. e. you see the mote in your brother's eye, but not the beam in your own, Sen. Vit. Beat. 27.

In the wild

Papulae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.31.2
papulas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.11.p8
papulasque Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.489
papulasque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.7.p2
papula Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p20
papulas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.17.p1

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. papula (scan p. 504; entry #8203).

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