The corpus record — Latin

quantillus

how small a deal

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Where it lives

Bacchides 2 · 2.03/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k

What it meant

quantillus — Lewis & Short

quantillus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [quantulus], how small a deal, i. e. how little, how small, how diminutive (Plautin.).

1 Interrog.: huic debet Philolaches paulum. Then. Quantillum? Tra. Quasi quadraginta minas, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 95; id. Ps. 4, 7, 95; id. Curc. 1, 2, 14.— In exclamations: haecine sunt meae filiae? Quantae e quantillis jam sunt factae! Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 8, 7.—

2 Rel.: subducam ratiunculam, quantillum argenti mihi apud trapezitam siet, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 90.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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