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scapula

scapula · m

a Roman surname

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Where it lives

De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Scăpŭla — Lewis & Short

Scăpŭla, ae, m.,

I a Roman surname.

I A partisan of Pompey, the main instigator of the Spanish war, Auct. B. Hisp. 33; Cic. Fam. 9, 13, 1.—

II A usurer in the time of Cicero, Cic. Quint. 4, 17.—Hence, Scă-pŭlānus, a, um, adj., named after one Scapula: horti, Cic. Att. 12, 40, 4.

2. scăpŭla — Lewis & Short

scăpŭla, ae, f.,

I a kind of vine, = vennucula, q. v., Plin. 14, 2, 6, § 34.

3. scăpŭla — Lewis & Short

scăpŭla, ae, f., v. scapulae

I fin.

In the wild

scapulam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.2.p7
Scapulam Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 55
Scapula Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.13.1
Scapula Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 14.1
Scapulae Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.38A.2
scapulae Plautus, Asinaria 2.2

6 of 21 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scapula (scan p. 624; entry #10268).

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