The corpus record — Latin

vetulus

little old

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Where it lives

Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Epigrammata 9 · 1.6/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĕtŭlus — Lewis & Short

vĕtŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [vetus], little old, old (class.)

I Adj.: vetulus, decrepitus senex, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 43: gladiator, Cic. Quint. 7, 29: filia, id. Att. 13, 29, 1: equi, id. Lael. 19, 67: arbor (opp. novella), id. Fin. 5, 14, 39: Falernum, Cat. 27, 1: cornix, Hor. C. 4, 13, 25; cf. cadi, Mart. 13, 112, 2 et saep.—

II Substt.

A vĕtŭlus, i, m., a little old man, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 4.— Jocularly: mi vetule, my little old fellow, Cic. Fam. 7, 16, 1.—

B vĕtŭla, ae, f., a little old woman, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 118; Juv. 6, 241; Mart. 8, 79, 1.

In the wild

6 of 26 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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