The corpus record — Latin

sarculum

sarculum · n

a light hoe

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

sarcŭlum — Lewis & Short

sarcŭlum, i, n. (

I masc. collat. form, acc. plur., sarculos, Pall. 1, 43, 3) [sario = sarrio], an implement for loosening the soil, weeding, etc., a light hoe (cf.: ligo, pastinum), Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 155, 1; Varr. L. L. 5, § 134 Muüll.; Col. 2, 11, 10; Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 79 (Jahn, sacculo); 19, 6, 33, § 109; Ov. M. 11, 36; id. F. 1, 699; Hor. C. 1, 1, 11; Vulg. Isa. 7, 25.

In the wild

sarculo Prudentius, Hamartigenia pr.16
sarculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.33
sarcula Cato, De agri cultura 10
sarculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.21
sarculo Apuleius, Florida 15
sarcula Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.311

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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