The corpus record — Latin

quaestiuncula

quaestiuncula · f

a little

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5 · 0.42/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

quaestĭuncŭla — Lewis & Short

quaestĭuncŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a little or trifling question (class.): quaestiunculam alicui ponere, Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 102; Sen. Ep. 117, 1: multae, Cic. Leg. 2, 20, 51; Quint. 1, 3, 11; Suet. Gram. 24 fin.

In the wild

quaestiunculas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.111.2.p1
quaestiunculas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.120.1
quaestiunculas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.49.8
Quaestiunculas Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 12.3
quaestiunculas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.117.1
quaestiunculam Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.12.1

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.