The corpus record — Latin

ventriosus

ventriosus · adj

having a large belly

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Where it lives

Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ventrĭōsus — Lewis & Short

ventrĭōsus, a, um, adj.venter,

I having a large belly, big - bellied, pot - bellied: homo, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 20; id. Merc. 3, 4, 54; id. Ps. 4, 7, 120; id. Rud. 2, 2, 11.—In the collat. form ventrŭōsus, bellying out: ventruosa ac patula dolia, Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 134; and ventrōsus, Cassiod. in Psa. 72.

In the wild

ventriosum Plautus, Mercator 3.4
ventriosum Plautus, Rudens 2.2
ventriosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.21
ventriosus Plautus, Asinaria 2.3
ventriosus Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7

Where it came from

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