The corpus record — Latin

vellicatio

vellicatio · f

a plucking

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant

vellĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

vellĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a plucking, twitching; trop., a twitting, taunting (postAug.): cum non tantum lacerationes, sed etiam vellicationes effugerit, Sen. Vit. Beat. 5, 3; id. Ira, 3, 43, 5.

In the wild

vellicationes Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.5.3
vellicationes Seneca, De Ira 3.43.5

Where it came from

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

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