The corpus record — Latin

segmen

segmen · n

what is cut off

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

segmen — Lewis & Short

segmen, ĭnis, n.seco,

I what is cut off, a cutting, shred, little bit (very rare): unguium et capilli segmina, Fab. Pictor ap. Gell. 10, 15, 15: nulli secabile segmen, i. e. atom, Aus. Ecl. 1, 7: cannarum duplex fixa perpetuitas nec segmina, nec rimam ullam fieri patietur, i. e. will prevent the work from chipping off or cracking, Vitr. 7, 3.

In the wild

segmina Ausonius, Epistularum 28.24
segmen Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 6.7
segmina Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.3.11
segmina Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.15.15

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. segmen (scan p. 636; entry #10492).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. segmen (scan p. 1416; entry #2541).

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