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vernula

comm. dim

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

vernŭla — Lewis & Short

vernŭla, ae,

I comm. dim. [verna], a little or young home-born slave (post-Aug.).

I Lit., Juv. 10, 117; Sen. Prov. 1, 6; Plin. 22, 17, 20, § 44; App. M. 4, p. 153, 25 al.—

II Transf., adj.: = vernaculus.

A Jocular, pert, coarse: urbanitas, Petr. 24 (al. vernacula).—

B Native, indigenous: lupus Tiberinus, Juv. 5, 105: libelli, Mart. 5, 18, 4.

In the wild

vernula Martial, Epigrammata 14.54.1
vernula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.8.p12
vernula Martial, Epigrammata 12.70.1
vernula Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.1.7
vernula Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.117
vernula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.17.p2

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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