The corpus record — Latin

recula

recula · f

A small matter

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

rēcŭla — Lewis & Short

rēcŭla (also written rēscŭla), ae, f.dim.res.

I A small matter, a trifle, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 613 P.; in plur., App. M. 4, p. 148: resculae (al. reculae), Salv. c. Avar. 4, p. 166.—

II In partic., a small estate, Don. Vit. Verg. init.

In the wild

recula Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1
reculam Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 110.p1
recula Appendix Vergiliana, Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 66
resculas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.12

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. recula (scan p. 1330; entry #2256).

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