The corpus record — Latin

rancidulus

stinking

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

rancĭdŭlus — Lewis & Short

rancĭdŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [rancidus] (post-Aug.).

I Lit., stinking, rank, rancid: opsonia, Juv. 11, 135.—

II Trop., disgusting, loathsome, offensive: rancidulum quiddam locutus, Pers. 1, 33; cf. Mart. 7, 34, 7.

In the wild

rancidulo Martial, Epigrammata 7.34.7
rancidula Juvenal, Saturae 4.11.135

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.