The corpus record — Latin

ranunculus

ranunculus · m

a little frog

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rānuncŭlus — Lewis & Short

rānuncŭlus, i, m.dim.rana.

I Lit., a little frog, a tadpole, porwigle, Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15.—

II Transf., jocosely, of the inhabitants of Ulubrae (as residing in the neighborhood of marshes), Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 3.—

III A medicinal plant, called also batrachion, perh. crowfoot, ranunculus, Plin. 25, 13, 109, § 172; Tert. Spect. 27.

In the wild

ranunculorum Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.18.3
ranunculus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.25.p113
ranunculos Cicero, De Divinatione 1.15

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.