The corpus record — Latin

pauculus

very few

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Where it lives

De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
Noctes Atticae 5 · 0.45/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paucŭlus — Lewis & Short

paucŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [id.], very few, very little (mostly ante- and postclass., and commonly in plur.): inter pauculos amicos, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2: mane, paucula etiam sciscitare prius volo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 52: volo te verbis pauculis, id. Ep. 3, 4, 28: loquitor paucula, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 24: in diebus pauculis, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 13: ut ibi pauculos dies esset, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 6: quare dereliquisti pauculas oves istas? Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 28.— In sing.: post pauculum tempus, App. M. 11, p. 272, 3.

In the wild

pauculos Tertullian, De Oratione 23
pauculos Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.15.6
pauculos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.2
paucula Plautus, Mercator 2.3
pauculorum Tertullian, De Oratione 9
pauculos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.17.3

6 of 23 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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