taxillus — Lewis & Short
taxillus, i, m.acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 153, the primitive whence talus,
I a small die, Pompon. ap. Prisc. p. 615 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 190 Rib.); Vitr. 10, 8, 2.
The corpus record — Latin
taxillus
taxillus · m
a small die
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
- Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- taxillis Cicero, Orator 153
- Taxillo Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.10e.2
- taxilli Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.8.2
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.