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quisquiliae

quisquiliae · f

the waste

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. quisquĭlĭae — Lewis & Short

quisquĭlĭae, ārum, f. (

I neutr. collat. form quisquĭlĭa, ōrum, Petr. 75; cf.: quisquilia, sku/bala, Gloss. Philox.) [prob. from quisque, all sorts of things, odds and ends].

I Lit., the waste or refuse of any thing, the droppings of trees, sweepings, offscourings, rubbish, filth: quisquiliae dici putantur quicquid ex arboribus minutis surculorum foliorumve cadit, Fest. p. 257 Müll.; cf.: quisquiliae, stipulae immixta esurculis et foliis aridis: sunt autem purgamenta terrarum, Isid. Orig. 17, 6; and: quisquiliae, sku/bala, fruga/nwn xai=tai, periyh/mata, Gloss. Philox.: quisquilias, volantes, venti spolia, memoras, Caecil. ap. Fest. l. l.: quisquiliae frumenti, Vulg. Amos, 8, 6: nugas marinas et quisquilias litorales quaerere, App. Mag. p. 296, 36. —

II Transf., of vile or worthless persons, beasts, or things, refuse, outcast, riffraff, dregs, rubbish, trash: omitto Numerium, Serranum, Aelium, quisquilias seditionis Clodianae, Cic. Sest. 43, 94; id. Att. 1, 16, 6: homo non, quisquiliae, Nov. ap. Fest. p. 257 Müll.— Of worthless fish, App. M. 1, p. 113, 28: corcillum est, quod homines facit: cetera quisquilia omnia, are trifles, Petr. 75.

2. quisquiliae — Walde–Hofmann

quisquiliae, -ärum f. „Abfall, Auswurf der Menschheit“ (seit Cie., rom. „Kehricht*): aus *gue-sque-leae. (J. Schmidt KZ. 32, 352. 354); nach Vanidek 312, Curtius 169, Persson KZ. 33, 289. Beitr. 375 f. zu gr. ko-GkuA-udvia n. , Lederschnitzel", a0 ,zerreifie" (*sg.lid), oral ,behacke^ (s. sealpo). Idg. *skuel-, *skul-; wegen mhd. schiel „Splitter“ (*skeulo-) ist zweisilbiges *skeuel- anzusetzen; einfacheres “skeye- … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. quisquiliae, p. 1317]

In the wild

quisquilias Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.24
quisquilias Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.16.6
quisquilias Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 1.5
quisquilias Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 94

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quisquiliae (scan p. 584; entry #9574).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. quisquiliae (scan p. 1317; entry #2223). Root candidates: *skuel-, *skul-, *skeulo-.

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