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rabula

rabula · m

a brawling

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Where it lives

  • Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
  • Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
  • Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
  • De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
  • Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
  • Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. răbŭla — Lewis & Short

răbŭla, ae, m.1. rabo,

I a brawling, wrangling advocate, a pettifogger (cf.: clamator, declamator): non declamatorem aliquem de ludo aut rabulam de foro ... quaerimus, Cic. Or. 15, 47; with causidicus and proclamator, id. de Or. 1, 46. 202; with latrator, Quint. 12, 9, 12; cf. Fest. s. v. rava vox, p. 137 Müll.; Non. 26, 21; 60, 19.

2. rabula — Walde–Hofmann

rabula, -ae m. „Zungendrescher, Rabulist* (seit Lucil.), rabulàtio ,Zungendrescherei^ (Mart. Cap., ebenso rabulátus, -üs)): nach Herbig IF. 37, 165 ff, Bertoldi St. Etr. 10, 26? samt dem erst neulat. *rabulista (vgl. lanista oben 1760) und PN, Rabuleius (seit Cic.) wegen des etruskisierenden Typus auf -a (vgl. etr. rapit) aus dem Etrusk. entl. Nicht nach Havet ALL. 9, 524 mit den Alten zu vóx ravula kreischende … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. rabula, p. 1319]

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Where it came from

  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. rabula (scan p. 586; entry #9614).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. rabula (scan pp. 1319-1321; entry #2230). Root candidates: *rok-, *rat-, *rad-.

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