rānŭla — Lewis & Short
rānŭla, ae, f.dim.rana.
I Lit., a little frog, a tadpole, App. M. 9, p. 233, 11. —
II Transf., a little swelling on the tongue of cattle, Veg. 4, 5, 1 al.
The corpus record — Latin
ranula
ranula · f
a little frog
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ranula Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.34
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.