sălăco — Lewis & Short
sălăco, ōnis, m., = sala/kwn,
I a swaggerer, braggart, Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 2 (perh. also id. ib. 16, 18, 2, acc. to the conject. of Manut.; v. Inscr. Orell. N. cr., where others read Halico).
The corpus record — Latin
salaco
salaco · m
a swaggerer
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Where it lives
- Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- salaconis Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.24.2
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.