The corpus record — Latin

rancidus

rancidus · adj

stinking

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rancĭdus — Lewis & Short

rancĭdus, a, um, adj.ranceo, rancens,

I stinking, rank, rancid.

I Lit.: cadavera, Lucr. 6, 1155: aper, Hor. S. 2, 2, 89.—

II Trop., disgusting, loathsome, offensive: aspectus, Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 92.—Comp.: quid rancidius, quam, etc., Juv. 6, 185. — Sup. does not occur.— Adv.: rancĭdē, nauseously, disgustingly: ficta verba, Gell. 18, 11, 2; 18, 8, 1.

In the wild

rancide Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.11.2
rancida Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.1155
rancide Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.8.1
rancidi Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.26
rancidum Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.2.89
rancidum Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.10

6 of 8 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.