The corpus record — Latin

vasculum

vasculum · n

a small vessel

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Where it lives

De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vascŭlum — Lewis & Short

vascŭlum, i, n.dim.2. vas,

I a small vessel.

I Lit.

1 Cato, R. R. 111; Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 3; id. Trin. 4, 2, 46; Quint. 1, 2, 28; 7, 10, 9; Juv. 9, 141.—

2 A small beehive, Pall. Jun. 7, 8.—

II Transf.

1 The seed-capsule of certain plants, Plin. 15, 28, 34, § 115; 18, 7, 10, § 52.—

2 = membrum virile, Petr. 24 fin.

In the wild

uascula Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.10.p3
vasculo Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 16
vasculo Petronius, Satyricon 24
vascula Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.300
vasculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.5.p1
vascula Plautus, Rudens 1.2

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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