vāpŭlāris — Lewis & Short
vāpŭlāris, e, adj.vapulo,
I that gets a flogging: tribunus, facetiously, qs. the head floggee, of a slave, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 22.
The corpus record — Latin
vapularis
vapularis · adj
that gets a flogging
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
- Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
- Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
- Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
- Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- vapularis Plautus, Persa 1.1
- vapulare Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.27
- Vapulare Plautus, Curculio 4.4
- vapulare Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 9
- vapulare Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.14.1
- vapulare Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1
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.