The corpus record — Latin

radicula

radicula · f

a small root

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

Where it lives

De Medicina 19 · 1.85/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 12 · 1.52/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

rādīcŭla — Lewis & Short

rādīcŭla, ae, f.dim.id..

I In gen., a small root, rootlet, Cic. Div. 2, 66, 136; Col. 5, 5, 5.—

II In partic.

1 Fuller'sweed, soapwort, Plin. 19, 3, 18, § 48. —

2 A small kind of radish, Col. 4, 8, 1; 11, 2, 19; Cels. 2, 18; 21; 29 al.

In the wild

radiculam Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p5
radiculae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.6.7
radiculas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.8.2
radiculas Celsus, De Medicina 4.24
radiculas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.14.2
radiculae Celsus, De Medicina 4.12.p8

6 of 43 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.