The corpus record — Latin

ratiuncula

ratiuncula · f

A small reckoning

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

rătĭuncula — Lewis & Short

rătĭuncula, ae, f.dim.ratio.

I A small reckoning, a little account: subduxi ratiunculam, Quantum aeris mihi sit, quantumque alieni siet, Plaut. Curc. 3, 1; id. Capt. 1, 2, 89; Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 2.—

II A slight ground or reason: leves, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: huic incredibili sententiae ratiunculas suggerit, id. N. D. 3, 29, 73.—

2 In dialectics, a petty syllogism: concludunt ratiunculas Stoici, Cic. Tusc. 2, 12, 29: humanis ratiunculis falsis contravenire conantur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 20, 1, 1.

In the wild

ratiunculas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.43
ratiuncula Terence, Phormio 1.1
ratiunculam Plautus, Captivi 1.2
ratiunculas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.28.p2
ratiunculam Plautus, Curculio 3.1
ratiuncula Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 2.2

6 of 7 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.