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tigillum

tigillum · n

A small piece of wood

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Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

tĭgillum — Lewis & Short

tĭgillum, i, n.dim.tignum.

I A small piece of wood: clamat suam rem perisse ... de suo tigillo fumus si qua exit foras, i. e. if the least bit of wood is burned in his house, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 21. —

II Esp., a little beam, Liv. 1, 26, 13; Cat. 67, 39; Tib. 2, 1, 39; Phaedr. 1, 2, 14; Juv. 7, 46; App. M. 1, p. 109. —

B Sororium Tigillum; v. sororius, II.

In the wild

tigillo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.16
tigillum Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 1.2.14
tigillo Plautus, Aulularia 2.4
tigillo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.30
tigillo Catullus, Carmina elegies.67.39
tigillum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.26.13

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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