1. scordălus — Lewis & Short
scordălus, i, m.,
I a quarrelsome fellow, a wrangler, brawler (a low post-Aug. word), Petr. 95, 7; Sen. Ep. 83, 12; 56, 2; id. Suas. 7, 14.
The corpus record — Latin
scordalus
scordalus · m
a quarrelsome fellow
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Where it lives
- Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
- Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
2. scordalus — Walde–Hofmann
scordalus, -3 m. (Sen., Petron, scordalía f. ,Zànkerei" Petron): Lw. aus gr. gxöp(o)dov „Knoblauch“ (vom Einreiben der Kampfhähne mit Knoblauch; s. Saalfeld, Heraeus Kl. Schr. 95f.) — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scordalus, p. 1403]
In the wild
- scordalus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.83.12
- scordalo Petronius, Satyricon 95
- scordalus Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 7.14
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scordalus (scan p. 628; entry #10356).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scordalus (scan p. 1403; entry #2499).
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