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vescus

vescus · adj

Small

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Noctes Atticae 5 · 0.45/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

vescus — Lewis & Short

vescus, a, um, adj.contr. from veesca.

I Small, little, thin, weak, feeble: farra (opp. vegrandia), Ov. F. 3, 445: papaver, Verg. G. 4, 131: frondes, id. ib. 3, 175 Serv.: corpus, Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 81: vires, Afran. ap. Non. p. 187, 3.—

II Poor, wretched: fastidiosum ac vescum vivere, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 186, 32.—

III Act., corroding, eating away: sal, Lucr. 1, 326 Munro ad loc.

In the wild

vescum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.5.7
Vescum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.5.6
vescaque Ovid, Fasti 3.446
vescum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.12.10
vescae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae pr.1.16
vescum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.5.7

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uéscus (scan p. 752; entry #12559).

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