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unguiculus

unguiculus · m

a finger-nail

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Where it lives

Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

unguĭcŭlus — Lewis & Short

unguĭcŭlus, i, m.dim.unguis,

I a finger-nail: integritas unguiculorum omnium, Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 80; Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 17; Sen. Q. N. 6, 2, 5.—Prov.: a teneris unguiculis, a transl. of the Gr. e)c a(palw=n o)nu/xwn, from early infancy, from childhood, Cic. Fam. 1, 6, 2 (for which: de tenero ungui, Hor. C. 3, 6, 24): ex unguiculis (= e)c o)nu/xwn), from the very finger-tips, i. e. through and through, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 20; App. M. 10, p. 249, 11.

In the wild

unguiculosque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.947
unguiculorum Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.80
unguiculo Plautus, Epidicus 5.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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