The corpus record — Latin

salaputium

salaputium · n

a little

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

What it meant

sălăpūtĭum — Lewis & Short

sălăpūtĭum, ii, n., a humorous appellation for

I a little, tiny man, a manikin, Liliputian: di magni, salaputium disertum! Cat. 53, 5; cf. Sen. Contr. 3, 19 med.

In the wild

salaputium Catullus, Carmina lyrics.53.5

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.