The corpus record — Latin

raudusculum

raudusculum · n

A little piece of brass

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

rauduscŭlum — Lewis & Short

rauduscŭlum (rōd- and rūd-), i, n.dim.raudus.

I A little piece of brass used as a coin (an old word): in mancipando cum dicitur: Rudusculo libram ferito, asse tangitur libra, Fest. s. v. rodus, p. 265 Müll.; v. raudus.— Hence,

II Transf., a small sum of money: de raudusculo Numeriano multum te amo, in regard to that little debt of Numerius, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 7: de raudusculo quod scribis, id. ib. 4, 8, a, § 1.

In the wild

raudusculo Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.8.1
raudusculo Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.8.5
raudusculo Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.2.7
Rauduscula Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.6.3

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.