The corpus record — Latin

tantillus

so little

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Where it lives

Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Metamorphoses 12 · 2.25/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

tantillus — Lewis & Short

tantillus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [tantulus], so little, so small; in neutr. subst., so little a thing, such a little thing (mostly anteclass.; not in Cic.).

A With correl.-clause: febrem tantillam esse, ut, etc., Cels. 2, 8: tantillum loci, ubi catellus cubet, id mihi sat est loci, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 40: si hercle tantillum peccassis, etc., id. Rud. 4, 4, 106.—

B Absol.: quem ego modo puerum tantillum in manibus gestavi meis, * Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 24: monstrum mulieris! tantilla tanta verba funditat, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61: donum, id. Truc. 2, 7, 59.—

II Subst.: tan-tillum, i, n., so little, such a trifle: hoccine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari? Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 56: haud tantillo minus, id. Most. 2, 1, 47.

In the wild

6 of 23 attestations shown.

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.