The corpus record — Latin

virgula

virgula · f

a little twig

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Where it lives

De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

virgŭla — Lewis & Short

virgŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a little twig, a small rod, a wand, Nep. Thras. 4, 1; Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 23; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1: divina, a divining-rod, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 158; also, the title of a work by Varro, ap. Non. p. 550, 12: censoria, a critical mark, as a sign of spuriousness (i. q. obelus), Quint. 1, 4, 3.—Of an accentual mark, Mart. Cap. 3, § 273.—Of a stripe on a garment, Schol. Juv. 8, 207.— Of a slight column of smoke, Vulg. Cant. 3, 6.

Where it came from

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