The corpus record — Latin

uxorcula

uxorcula · f

a little wife

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Where it lives

Casina 2 · 2.58/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

uxorcŭla — Lewis & Short

uxorcŭla, ae, f.dim.uxor,

I a little wife (ante- and post-class.): erat ei uxorcula satis quidem tenuis, App. M. 9, p. 219, 8.—As a term of endearment: mea uxorcula! Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 19; 5, 2, 38; Varr. ap. Non. 83, 25.

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Where it came from

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